FEDERAL JUDGE FINDS IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL! ! !

Federal panel tosses Illinois' initial Democratic state legislative map
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/federal-panel-tosses-illinois-initial-democratic-state-legislative-map-and-will-consider-alternatives-to-revised-plan/ar-AAPIRZd?ocid=msedgntp
 
A three-judge federal panel on Tuesday tossed the state legislative redistricting plan Illinois Democrats drew based on population estimates as unconstitutional.
The U.S. District Court panel faulted the General Assembly’s Democratic majority for originally moving ahead with a plan that relied on population estimates in order to maintain political control over the map. But the judges also rejected Republican efforts to force a map to be redrawn by a commission in a process that could give the GOP control.
…he court noted that, according to legal challenges alleging violations of federal voting rights laws, Democrats excluded Republicans, MALDEF and “numerous community groups from the process” in adopting the latest map.
Democratic lawmakers passed and Pritzker signed the updated map last month, but they did not repeal the earlier map based on population estimates that Pritzker signed into law in June. That prompted concerns that if the new map was ruled unconstitutional, the legislative election process would automatically revert to the estimated-population map.

The court said it needed to rule on the original map, which it found to be unconstitutional for violating federal equal protection and one-person, one-vote guarantees, to stop any use of the initial map.
The court said the decision by Democrats to go ahead with population estimates suggests that they “were motivated by a desire to avoid a commission.”

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