The Florida Supreme Court denied Thursday Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) attempt to get it to issue a preemptive opinion on redistricting maps still being crafted by the state legislature.
That’s too bad.
essentially eliminating one Voting Rights Act-protected district that is almost 50 percent Black.
If this redistricting case ever reaches our illustrious scotus any bets on how they’d rule? I mean we’re a post racial society and all.
Given what the 5 radicals on the Supreme Court just did to the Alabama openly racist gerrymandered districts, DeSatan and his pet legislature have no reason to preserve any black majority districts.
As a reminder, the radical Supreme Court majority used the shadow docket to stay a lower court decision preventing an openly racist filibuster. The stay portends a Supreme Court decision gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which is a green light for GOP led states to reduce, if not completely end, Black protected districts.
What does this mean? Extreme gerrymandering, even if nakedly racist, is “lawful.”
DeSantis: Can I haz non-justishable advice opinion?
SCOFL: No.
Pre-stealing attempt DENIED.
SCOFL ROFL?
So, the governor is trying to get the court to say “whatever Mr. DeSantos does is okay with us.” I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t have gone for that. It would have saved them so much time and effort over the next year. All of the Florida Supreme Court Justices could have simply gone on vacation after that ruling and stayed on vacation until a new governor was elected, which might never have happened after that ruling.
What were they thinking?
But Justice Roberts said there was no need for those provisions of the VRA that would have expressly PREVENTED exactly what is happening in FL.
And the SCOTUS really wants to de-fang the remainder of the VRA and Congress can’t figure out how to get the John Lewis bill passed.
So, guess what happens next? All POC districts get diluted to a point where they are effectively disenfranchised because their votes will be skunked.
"The Florida legislature has essentially been deciding how aggressive of a map it can get away with amid the legal challenges that will inevitably follow. "
Kavanaugh and the Fascist Five already told them: “File the most egregiously racist and partisan gerrymandered map you can come up with as close to the election as you can, and we will allow it to rig your elections by ruling it’s too close to the election for us to do anything.”
“Christ, what an asshole!” — Lucy van Pelt
Today’s totally completely unexpected news flash…
I’m guessing those missing calls are at least 18 1/2 minutes long.
The ghost of Rose Mary Woods is baaaaccckkkk…
dismantling two of Florida’s four predominantly Black districts
Republicans belong to a political party that stands for subjugation.
For them, government can’t possibly be big enough.
There is a very good argument to be made that deliberately creating majority-minority districts actually dilutes overall minority voting power. And it means that politicians in districts that have been drained of minority residents don’t have to give a damn about their interests.
He tried to pull a fast one but the court hit it over the fences.
The records clogged up the WH toilets.
That depends a great deal on how egregiously they are packed. This is, after all, just one half of “packing and cracking.”
DeSantis is a pig.
Not quite. They merely decided not to give advise on how much corrupt racism is too much ahead of the maps creation. They can still rubber stamp whatever the legislature creates at a later date. And the later the better in fact as the court will say it’s too close to the election and stay any challenges from democrats.
Florida Supreme Court to Governor, shorter:
“Pfffft.”
Trump famously did most of his phone calls via cell phone, so the committee can just subpoena the GRU for their records.