Independent Maps Group Throws Hail Mary
ICPR Senior Advisor David Melton was quoted in this article
via WTTW
“The group trying to take on entrenched political interests and end politically drawn legislative maps may still have life. Last week, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled against the group’s effort, effectively ending a yearslong battle that cost millions of dollars. It was a strict party-line vote that raised concerns from some observers about the political nature of the state Supreme Court itself.
The Independent Maps group got 563,000 signatures and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to put that issue before voters in a ballot referendum. But the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 vote that the question could not be put before voters, that it violated what the Illinois Constitution said was permissible for a public referendum.
Wednesday the group said they believe the four majority justices got it wrong, and they’ve petitioned the court to reconsider its ruling, something akin to a judicial Hail Mary.”
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