Ungood news out of Florida, some judge has partially invalidated the Congressional map, which was already too rat and cost Alan West his seat, as having “improper partisan intent”
God damn that “fair redistricting” ballot initiative or whatever it was.
“District 5, held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, and District 10, held by Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, “will need to be redrawn, as will any other districts affected thereby.”
Challenges to other districts were denied. Obviously the intent here is screw over Webster.
While this obviously is not good news, the fact that the judge struck down Corinne Brown’s FL-05 (and Dan Webster’s adjoining FL-10) as being in violation of FL’s ungodly “fair redistricting” amendment makes it likelier that the decision will be overturned on appeal, since the FL-05 was drawn that way so as to be black-majority and thus comply with the prevailing interpretation of the federal Voting Rights Act, which trumps anything in the state constitution. The judge’s decision appearrs to gave been as partisan as the intent that he ascribes to the legislators. Four of the seven SCOFLA Justices were appointed by Crist, so I guess we’ll see just how much of a RINO he was with respect to judicial appointments.