House Minority Leader, Tony McCombie of Savanna joined two other Republicans in announcing the lawsuit against the state over gerrymandered maps.
McCombie accused the Democrat Party of creating what she called grossly distorted maps aimed at keeping their grip on power. McCombie went on to say this process boils down to simply cheating.
The U.S. Supreme Court has given the responsibility of ending extreme partisan gerrymandering to the states, and now Illinois will potentially join other states like Pennsylvania and North Carolina who have had redistricting plans struck down on the basis of identical or comparable constitutional provisions.
In 2016, over 600,000 Illinoisans joined an effort to end partisan redistricting through a Fair Map Ballot Initiative. The Democrat-controlled Illinois Supreme Court would throw out the measure after former Commonwealth Edison executive John Hooker filed suit. Mr. Hooker would later be convicted of charges related to bribing former Speaker Michael Madigan,
