Illinois lawmakers are not planning to pursue a constitutional amendment on redistricting after a key U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday.
Senate President Don Harmon told Capitol News Illinois that Senate Democrats decided not to call an amendment that passed House last week after the ruling.
But that means the matter will have to wait until at least 2028, as lawmakers faced a May 3 deadline to approve constitutional amendments for voters to consider in November.
The proposed amendment would have inserted a provision from the Voting Rights Act into the state constitution to specifically direct lawmakers to consider race in drawing district lines.
The Voting Rights Act provision has long been interpreted as a ban on splitting large minority groups into multiple districts to reduce their voting power.
