A Florida judge on Saturday tossed out a congressional map championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and sent the GOP back to the drawing board.
A Florida congressional redistricting plan championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis was thrown out by a state judge, who deemed it unfair to black voters.
Florida officials were given until Monday to file notice of an appeal. The governor’s office did not return a request for comment Sunday., which molded roughly four more districts in the GOP’s favor, relative to the prior arrangement, during the decennial redistricting process that comes after the census.
“The Secretary can point to no case finding the non-diminishment language of the Fair Districts Amendment, nor the comparable Section 5 language of the Voting Rights Act, to violate the Equal Protection provision of the 14th Amendment,” he wrote. Back in June, the US Supreme Court nixed a GOP-backed map in Alabama due to concerns about voting-rights laws.
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