Two South Florida residents on Thursday petitioned a court to block heels-wearing Governor Ron DeSantis’s planned attempt to redraw the state’s congressional maps to make it easier for Republicans to win, arguing it’s a violation of the state constitution, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
Arguing that Tiny D and Secretary of State Cord Byrd’s prep maneuvers “commandeer the Legislature’s authority to decide whether and when to re-draw Florida’s congressional boundaries” and that their “actions have already disrupted Florida’s impending elections by casting significant uncertainty on the future of Florida’s congressional map and the relevant candidate filing deadlines,” the petitioners, backed by Dem elections lawyer Marc Elias and a Florida-based voting litigation firm, seek and enjoiner on the grounds of the state’s “strict separation of powers doctrine.”
Sounds solid, making the only real question what kind of outcome-based justification the state Supreme Court will come up with to allow DeSantis and his minions to go ahead and gerrymander.