Illinois Republicans won’t get the chance to argue in court that Democrats have unconstitutionally skewed state legislative maps to all but guarantee their party a supermajority in Springfield, after the Illinois Supreme Court ruled they waited too long to challenge the maps.
A dissenting Republican justice on the state high court, however, said the Democrat-dominated state high court improperly chose sides by moving on its own to force Republicans to defend the “timeliness” of their case.
On April 9, the Illinois Supreme Court issued an unsigned order denying Republicans in Illinois a hearing to challenge state legislative district maps drawn by Democrats in 2021.
The case had landed before the Illinois Supreme Court in late January. At that time, Republican voters from Cook County, St. Clair County, DeKalb County and elsewhere in Illinois joined with Republican state House Minority Leader Tony McCombie to directly petition the state high court to toss out and replace the state’s most recent legislative district map.
The map, which was approved by the Democratic legislative supermajority in the General Assembly and Gov. JB Pritzker, has been in place for both the 2022 and 2024 elections.
In their lawsuit, McCombie and her fellow plaintiffs called the map “the byproduct of extreme partisan gerrymandering,” which violates Illinoisans’ constitutional rights to actual representation in Springfield, rather than total control by the leadership of one party.
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Author: Faith Novak
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