AP reports. “Wisconsin’s nationally peculiar practice of detached districts is cited as one of several alleged violations in a recent lawsuit seeking to strike down current Assembly and Senate districts and replace them before the 2024 election. …

“Wisconsin’s detached districts are ‘profoundly weird,’ said Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Marymount University Law School in Los Angeles who created the All About Redistricting website. …

“’When you allow mapmakers to draw districts that are noncontiguous, you give them even more flexibility to perpetrate abuse,’” Levitt said.”