Conservative justice uses fake quote to justify Wisconsin Republican gerrymander.

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On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court took a major step toward striking down the state’s congressional map, an extreme Republican gerrymander that blatantly discriminates against Democratic voters. The majority appointed a pair of three-judge panels to decide whether the map violates the state constitution and, if so, whether the judiciary must impose a fairer substitute. Its decision prompted dissents from the court’s conservative members—including Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler, who suggested that the imposition of a more balanced map would violate the U.S. Constitution. To make that point, Ziegler quoted a recent Supreme Court decision, Moore v. Harper