"Signed, Sealed and Delivered"

Voting-rights lawsuit challenges new Fla. congressional map

Of course there's a lawsuit...anyone surprised about the opposition?

Equal Ground Education Fund, a voting rights group, and 18 Florida voters filed suit against the new map within hours of it becoming law.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed into law a new congressional redistricting map designed to elect four more Florida GOP Congress members, triggering a voting-rights lawsuit that argues the new map violates the state constitution.

DeSantis posted on X a copy of the new map with the heading “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” in the wake of last week’s special session of the Legislature, which approved the map drawn up by the Governor’s Office.

Republican congressional representatives in Florida currently outnumber Democrats 20 to 8, but the new map creates 24 Republican-leaning districts for November’s midterm elections.

A lawsuit filed in the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Leon County by the Equal Ground Education Fund and several Florida voters alleges that the new map violates the Fair Districts Amendment to the Florida Constitution, which voters approved in 2010.

The amendment contains a ban on partisan gerrymandering and districts that are not “compact,” as well as a provision barring maps that diminish the ability of racial or language minorities to elect representatives of their own choosing.

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