Newsweek: Ron DeSantis Poised for Huge Blow if Florida Election Map Redrawn

On Tuesday, a federal trial began in connection to a lawsuit filed by civil rights groups and voters who have argued the map drawn in 2022, which helped the GOP gain four seats in the Florida legislature, was unconstitutional.

Common Cause Florida, the Florida branch of the NAACP and Fair Districts Now are suing to have the map which saw a North Florida district held by Rep. Al Lawson, a Black congressman, eliminated.

On the first day of trial, attorney Greg Baker, who is representing the plaintiff, accused DeSantis of having “pushed and pushed” to endorse the disputed congressional map which helped the Florida GOP pick up four House seats at last year’s midterms elections.

“He pressed his argument by sound bite bullying,” Baker added, noting the Florida governor posted on social media in 2022 that he would “veto the congressional reapportionment plan currently being debated by the House. DOA [dead on arrival] while the legislature was debating a map that would have kept a Black performing district in North Florida.”

 

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