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Only days after Republicans went to court challenging new Democratic-drawn Illinois legislative boundaries, a group backed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has filed a federal lawsuit asking to block the state from using the redistricting plan for next year’s election.
Latinos and other minority groups could absorb the consequences of the new district lines through inadequate representation in the Illinois General Assembly, according to one of the suits.