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Illinois pauses redistricting effort after Supreme Court ruling
- By Jim Talamonti | The Center SquareJim TalamontiIllinois Reporter
- 20 hrs ago
(The Center Square) – Illinois has paused a legislative redistricting effort after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker promises that Illinois will push back.
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map and ruled that racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional.
Professor Jason Mazzone, director of the program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said the decision imposes a very significant limitation on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
“The court came as close to holding Section 2 unconstitutional as it possibly could have come without taking that final fatal step. The ruling will radically impact elections all over the country,” Mazzone told The Center Square.
Mazzone said majority minority districts, whether created because of a court order or because states thought the Voting Rights Act required them, will disappear.
He said the short-term effect is likely to be chaos.
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Pritzker said the high court ruling is an abomination.
“It is an attack on a crown jewel of our democracy,” Pritzker said.
Pritzker spoke at an unrelated event in Chicago on Wednesday.
“We’re not going to stand for it in Illinois. We’re going to push back. We have options for pushing back,” he said.
Pritzker suggested that the Senate could introduce new language and send it back to the House.
The fact that Pritsker has his panties twisted tells you all you need to know.
They are getting us to fight over conflicts among the PATHETIC 435 US House seats and how the districts are carved up to serve political purposes. Consider that the US is the SECOND LEAST REPRESENTED NATION ON EARTH!!!! If we were just RESTORE the level of representation in the House that we started with, we would have 18,400 members versus 435. YES, THAT is how much representation they STOLE FROM US IN 250 years!!! Is that kind of number manageable? Probably not, but then neither is it MORAL or RIGHT that 435 bought and paid for clowns pretend to rule over 350,000,000 people. The nation is WAY TOO LARGE, and our representation is WAY TOO LOW. Fix one or the other. I support dissolution of the Federal Government, with the 50 sovereign states going their own way…ideally also dissolving into units that might actually represent the interests of the citizens for a change.
The fact that Pritsker has his panties in a twist is like a reward to everyone who has had to listen to his fat ass talk shit for too long now.
If ever there was a giant rectal cavity who deserved a massive coronary yesterday, it’s that stupid fat fuck. Biggest target in the entire state of Illinois, and no one can take him down? Even the shitcongo gangsta nigs who spray and pray (while holding their glocks sideways) could nail that fat ass fool from 250′.
If overturned it would be to close to the election
This. Will make no real difference for 2026. Maybe for 2028, but who the hell still thinks they are voting their way out? This story is just more noise.