You don’t want to guarantee a republican form of government, you want to guarantee a *Republican* form of government

Wisconsin does not hold legislative elections consistent with the explicit constitutional guarantees that the state have “a republican form of government” and not abridge the “equal protection of the laws,” and it’s absolutely farcical to pretend otherwise:

there is no reasonable definition by which the wisconsin state legislature counts as a "republican form of government" https://t.co/klwN6laqe3— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) November 10, 2022

Rucho is one of the very worst decisions in the largely ignominious history of the United States Supreme Court, and this true even before the Court showed itself to be perfectly willing to enter into the “political thicket” so long as it led to more overrepresentation of the majority’s party. If the judiciary is unwilling to intervene in a case where self-dealing legislators disenfranchise voters and insulate themselves from political accountability in flagrant violation of explicit constitutional guarantees, there is no reason for the institution of judicial review to exist at all.