The Illinois Supreme Court has blocked voters from deciding whether to change how legislative boundaries are drawn. The proposal was meant to make legislative maps less political. But the justices who ruled against it focused on one particular reason why the remap proposal can’t appear on the November ballot.
And the reason is not whether redistricting is too political... It’s because the proposal gave new responsibilities to Illinois’ Auditor General. And the majority of justices decided that exceeds what the state constitution allows for in a citizen-driven change to the constitution.
Those wanting to change the map-drawing process also asked the Supreme Court to give guidance on whether any other remap attempt could ever make the ballot. The justices did not address that, saying, quote, “We leave that question for another day.”