The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has just struck down the state's legislative maps and ordered new maps to be drawn. 

The catch, here, is that the court is controlled by liberals, the liberal justices struck down Republican-drawn maps, and the liberal justices want the new maps to be drawn according to the wishes of state Democrats.

Politico reports:

The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned Republican-drawn legislative maps on Friday and ordered that new district boundary lines be drawn as Democrats had urged in a redistricting case they hope will weaken GOP majorities.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued its decision on Friday. The court found, by a vote of 4-3, that the Republican-drawn maps were unconstitutional.

The problem that the justices found with the maps was that they were not composed of "contiguous territory."

The New York Post reports:

The court found that “at least 50 of 99 assembly districts and at least 20 of 33 Senate districts” contain separate, detached territory and are in violation of Wisconsin’s constitutional requirements for legislative districts. “We therefore enjoin the Wisconsin Elections Commission from using the current maps in all future elections, as such, remedial 51 maps must be adopted prior to the 2024 elections,” the court wrote.

The justices further stated that if the maps are not remedied properly and if they are not completed in time, the court will take over the task of drawing the new maps.

This decision, in many ways, was predictable following the election victory of liberal justice Janet Protasiewicz, which gave the liberals majority control of the state supreme court.

As Republican state Sen. Duey Stroebel, following Friday's decision, put it:

We certainly expected this. She said while running for office that the maps were rigged. Now that they have control of the court, they legislate from the bench.

NBC News reports:

During the race, Protasiewicz criticized the state’s maps as being “unfair” and “rigged” — comments that conservatives said proved that she had forecast how she would rule on the issue. Following her victory, Republicans in the state subsequently demanded that she recuse herself from the case, with some threatening to impeach her for refusing to do so.

Many are now criticizing the court's decision, including conservative members of the state supreme court.

Judge Annette Ziegler, for example, wrote:

The court of four takes a wrecking ball to the law, making no room, nor having any need, for longstanding practices, procedures, traditions, the law, or even their coequal fellow branches of government. Their activism damages the judiciary as a whole.

Democrats, on the other hand, are celebrating the decision.

The question now is how the Republicans will proceed. Another question is whether there is a possibility that this case might end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Time will tell.