Republican leaders in the Illinois House and Senate filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of the new legislative district maps that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law June 4.
Senate Minority Leader Dan McConchie, of Hawthorn Woods, and House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, of Western Springs, filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Chicago, arguing that the maps are based on survey data rather than official U.S. Census numbers and therefore violate the U.S. Constitution’s “one person, one vote” requirement.
“Today’s filing should come as no surprise to Illinoisans,” Durkin said in a news release. “The partisan process upon which the legislative maps were drawn flies in the face of strong recommendations made by countless advocacy groups and citizens who testified at the redistricting hearings.”
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Jun 9, 2021 | 1:12 PM
(The Center Square) – Claiming the recently enacted legislative maps were based on inaccurate data, Illinois Senate and House Republicans have filed a federal lawsuit against the House Speaker, the Senate President, and others challenging the new boundaries.
After the decennial Census, states must redraw their political boundaries. Before the end of the spring legislative session, the Democratic majority at the statehouse produced maps and passed them with little time to review.
Republicans and some ethnic and religious minority groups criticized the partisan process and use of American Community Survey data instead of the full Census data, which hasn’t been released yet because of the pandemic and other factors.
Senate Minority Leader Dan McConchie (left) and House Minority Leader Jim Durkin are pictured in a virtual news conference earlier this year. The two leaders filed a lawsuit this week challenging the new legislative maps passed by Democrats and signed into law by Gov. JB Pritzker last week.
Republican leaders in the Illinois House and Senate filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of the new legislative district maps that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law June 4.
Senate Minority Leader Dan McConchie, of Hawthorn Woods, and House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, of Western Springs, filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Chicago, arguing that the maps are based on survey data rather than official U.S. Census numbers and therefore violate the U.S. Constitution’s “one person, one vote” requirement.
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