Florida supreme court upholds congressional map that weakens Black voters’ influence | Florida
Florida High Court Refused to challenge On Thursday, the state’s congress map is a decision that weakens the influence of black voters in the state and makes it easier to draw Gerrymandred maps in the future.
Years of legal dispute focused on the decision of Florida Governor Ron Desantis to get rid of a dolambaç region in North Florida, where Black Voters Ron Desantis, in which black voters were almost half of the appropriate voter population and selected Al Lawson, who was repeatedly chosen to the Congress. When the Florida Legislative Assembly restarted the map in 2021, the Desantis came out of its way to divide the region into four different places where white people consisted of majority. Desantis, Tallahassee to Jacksonville more than 200 miles of the region’s voters’ races, said unacceptable.
The decision helped Republicans get additional seats in Florida. The decision on Thursday is a gain for Republicans waiting to lose seats in the US house in the mid -year elections next year.
Black voters and advocacy groups challenged the map, saying that the survival of the district violated one of several anti-alte-anti-anti-lubricants known as the amendment of fair regions (FDA) approved by voters in 2010. [racial and language minorities’] The ability to choose the representatives they choose.
The judge of a circuit court confronted the plaintiffs and hit the map in May 2022. The Court of Appeal reversed this decision.
The Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz wrote a description, a majority view, and admitted that the old region could choose the candidates preferred by black voters and reduce the ability of the new map to do so. However, the question was whether it was possible to draw regions that match non -dimensional requirements without allowing the race to dominate. The plaintiffs said it did not prove that it was possible.
“Record does not leave any doubt that such a region will be racing-premilled. The registration does not give us a reasonable basis for thinking that more cases will create a potentially applicable remedy,” he wrote. “It is probably impossible to draw a region in North Florida without subjecting the FDA to the neutral distribution standards.”
Chris Senton, a lawyer with the Southern Social Justice Coalition and represented the plaintiffs who challenged maps in a separate case, said, “There is no doubt that this view significantly limits FDA’s access significantly.”
Justice Jorge Labarga wrote that the case should be sent back to a sub -court that should be given the chance to prove that such a map is possible. The Supreme Court’s decision is the basis of future decisions that can make the dimensionlessness substance practically ineffective or worse as a matter of law ”.
