DeSantis appeals Florida judge's order blocking his redistricting map

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at Miami's Freedom Tower, on Monday, May 9, 2022, in Miami. | Marta Lavandier, File/AP PhotoTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis has appealed a state judge’s order blocking the Republican governor’s congressional redistricting map, the latest move in the long-running fight over redistricting in the state.

She appealed an order from Circuit Judge J. Layne Smith, who earlier this week said the DeSantis map was unconstitutional because it “would diminish the ability of Black voters to elect their candidate of choice in North Florida.”Al Lawson The Legislature initially approved congressional maps but the governor vetoed them. The Legislature then held a special session in April to approve DeSantis-backed maps that give Republicans a 20-8 congressional seat advantage.

DeSantis’ map nixes Lawson’s seat, which stretches 200 miles from Jacksonville to Tallahassee, and in the process takes 360,000 Black voters in that district and distributes them in four separate congressional seats. In a motion filed Friday, voting and civil rights groups challenging DeSantis’ maps asked Smith to allowblocking the plan to immediately take effect rather than temporarily set aside that ruling until legal appeals are complete.

This guy is an atrocious example of a political leader..

I‘ve got news 4 lawtwitter: as in Alito Putinizing Roe-Casey, the problem is also the Rule of Law that permits Redistricting w/o adequate guardrails to prevent partisan gerrymandering. Let’s stop deifying, fetishizing, reifying or lionizing the R/L.

Pass voting rights act!

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He keeps expanding on his tyranny. He needs to lose his next term and never be in public office.

You wouldn't have a conflict of interest over this...would you Ronny?

What? No gerrymandering?

Surrounded by only yes men for his daily theatrics

Did Scott do this? Surely, they are learning for Rick's fails though attempting to do the same S%t.

No one should be surprised, he's appealing the decision to a kangaroo court, that is presided over by a Trump appointee, should it go to the Suoreme Court, we know that court is compromised, lacking credibility, integrity and accountability, it's not funny tho

I love how the tax dollars get spent appealing everything they, the Republicans don't like as a judgment. Cry babies!

The word is gerrymander

often wrong but never in doubt

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