Federal court panel upholds Democratic-drawn state legislative districts

The three-judge panel sided with arguments from majority legislative Democrats, who drew the map and said that Illinois’ history of racial crossover voting meant

“The record shows ample evidence of crossover voting to defeat any claim of racially polarized voting sufficient to deny Latino and Black voters of the opportunity to elect candidates of their choice in the challenged districts,” the court wrote. Looking at the prospect of Republicans remaining the minority party in the legislature for the next 10 years, Illinois Senate Republican leader Dan McConchie of Hawthorn Woods called the ruling a “disappointment” adding, “that does not mean we will ever stop fighting for independent maps in Illinois.”

Democrats and their attorneys defended the new map by saying the political sensibilities of Illinois and its voters far surpassed the racially polarized voting that led to the remedies required under the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The number of districts with majority-Latino voting-age populations fell from five to four in the House, and three to two in the Senate, Republicans and MALDEF said.

Democrats contended the proposed Republican Latino districts were an attempt to alter other districts to create GOP-leaning opportunities for representation. They said the MALDEF map also would split Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood into different districts, diluting the ability of Asian Americans to elect a representative.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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