Jacksonville City Council decides to appeal judge’s decision on voting maps

The decision was made by council members who met privately to discuss their plan on whether to fight or accept the judge’s decision.Thursday’s decision comes two days after Jacksonville City Council President Terrance Freeman told News4JAXBut the decision to appeal will likely result in a prolonged court battle and a possible stay that could keep voting maps from 2015 in place for the upcoming 2023 election.

In October, the judge ruled that the city used race, an unconstitutional method, to draw the new lines and ordered the city council to go back to the drawing board. The city council after its first try was rejected. But when Judge Marcia Morales Howard issued her ruling on Duval County’s boundary maps for city council and school board members Monday evening, she sided with the Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP and other civil rights groups who filed their objections to the city’s remedial maps and proposed three maps of their own.

The plaintiffs say the map for Plan 3 “cures the most egregious violations, by not stripping Black residents from District 14 and not packing them into other districts.”

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

Activist judge.

Racists gonna racist.

Wasting taxpayer money in order to stay in power.

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