Florida Supreme Court Orders Redrawing Of Some Congressional Districts
By Bill Cotterell
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jul 9 (Reuters) – The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday systematic a redrawing of some of a state’s U.S. congressional districts before a 2016 elections.
The state’s high justice found a legislature’s redistricting devise was “constitutionally invalid,” a latest preference in a long-running authorised conflict over gerrymandering in a state.
The justice pronounced dual of a state’s 27 congressional districts, now assigned by Democrat Corrine Brown of Jacksonville and Republican Daniel Webster in a Orlando area, need to be redrawn, as good as adjacent districts.
These districts have been a theme of litigation. A circuit justice decider ruled final year that a legislature’s 2012 maps “made a mockery” of anti-gerrymandering supplies in a state’s constitution.
“The justice has done it extravagantly transparent that narrow-minded gerrymandering will not be tolerated,” pronounced profession David King, representing a organisation of plaintiffs led by a League of Women Voters of Florida and Common Cause. (Reporting by Bill Cotterell and Letitia Stein; Editing by Bill Trott and Mohammad Zargham)
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