Georgia’s lawmakers simply will NOT comply with a court order to redraw a US House didtrict to favor minorities ….
Now a Florida appeals court says that state doesn’t have to move to make sure minorities keep a district that reflects their population in a state area….
Florida lawmakers originally drew the district so that a Black House Rep. would keep the seat , But Republican Governor DeSantis vetoed THAT and the district was broken up in a plan by HIS staff…
Folks?
Republicans ARE NOT gonna let those minority voters get their piece of the US House of they get away with it….
Trump Era…..
Things ARE going backwards …IN PLAIN SIGHT….
The case is also in Federal Court awaiting a ruling…
A state appeals court on Friday overturned a ruling that declared Gov. Ron DeSantis’ congressional map unconstitutional, setting the stage for the legal battle to finally head to the conservative-leaning state Supreme Court.
The map pushed by the governor dismantled the North Florida seat of former Rep. Al Lawson, a Black Democrat, and resulted in Republicans gaining four seats that helped the GOP flip the U.S. House during the 2022 midterm elections.
A circuit court judge back in August said the map violated Florida’s constitution and ordered that legislators redraw it.
Initially, both sides wanted the case to be decided by the state’s highest court ahead of the 2024 legislative session that starts in January and asked that the legal challenge be fast-tracked. But instead, in an unusual move, the entire 1st District Court of Appeals took up the appeal, which slowed down the resolution of the legal clash between the GOP-controlled Legislature, DeSantis and voting rights and civil rights groups that sued the state over the maps….
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…Amy Keith, Common Cause Florida executive director, said the ruling reflects the importance of her group’s decision to challenge the maps in a separate federal lawsuit. A ruling in that case is expected by the end of the year.
Florida picked up one congressional seat in 2022 due to population growth for a total of 28 districts. Lawmakers initially planned to preserve Lawson’s district until DeSantis objected and contended that the existing district was an illegal race-based gerrymander. The Legislature came back with another map that shifted it eastward around Jacksonville, but still contained a substantial number of Black voters.
DeSantis responded by vetoing the map and instead pressured the Legislature to enact one drawn up by his staff…..