On Thursday Florida’s Supreme Court rules the state’s congressional maps do not meet the requirement of a voter-approved constitutional amendment that prohibits political lines from being drawn to favor incumbents or a specific political party.
The judge ordered the Legislature to redraw the maps.Florida has 27 congressional districts in total. The ruling will affect 22 of them. Even though the court only ruled eight districts have to be redrawn in order to do so 14 bordering districts have to be changed as well.
The districts affected include ones held by Democrats Corrine Brown, Kathy Castor, Ted Deutch and Lois Frankel. The republicans affected include Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Curbelo, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and David Jolly.
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Brown had the most obvious gerrymandered district. She released the following statement about the ruling:
The court ruled the Legislature needs to redraw the map quickly due to the upcoming elections. They also told the Legislature all decisions have to be done in public and all related emails and documents have to be saved.Overturning the current District 5 map ignores the essential redistricting principle of maintaining communities of interest or minority access districts. Certainly, minority communities do not live in compact, cookie-cutter like neighborhoods, and excessive adherence to district ‘compactness,’ while ignoring the maintenance of minority access districts, fragments minority communities across the state.
