I stated that there is no federal law requiring a safe district for - i.e. guaranteeing a win by - a minority.
There is no such law. This district in Florida violates the act, and specifically violates the ruling I mentioned.
Yes,not only can Florida undraw it -they must, according to the law.
That district was not drawn to assure the election of a black person, it was drawn to include as many blacks as possible in one district, thereby diluting their influence in other districts...which is expressly against the law.
This is shoddy, underhanded, despicable politics at its worst. This was drawn up by a rotten sack of scum buckets.
Your opinion of the duty of the legislature is skewed, and clearly displays what’s wrong in all this.
It is NOT their duty to draw districts to benefit the majority. It is their duty to draw reasonable, cohesive, and logical districts - they have misused that responsibility to benefit the majority.
Someone needs to get that appealed and fast
But electing a Black Dem (in a Black district) is the intent, let’s not be naïve here.
As for our disagreement on the purpose of the FL legislature, let’s also not be naïve... If the GOP legislature doesn’t aggressively and mercilessly not draw the lines to benefit and keep a majority, no one else will. Anything involving “fairness” or “independence” with respect to redistricting are codewords for “screw Republicans.”
Don’t believe me ? Look at California or Arizona. Arizona is a majority Republican state. Votes GOP for President, for the statewide offices, for the legislature. When the movement to take the line-drawing away from the legislature was pushed through, the so-called “Independent” body proceeded to draw a 5 Democrat-4 Republican House delegation for 2012. This is outrageous, since it should be 7 Republican-2 Democrat. It was 5R-3D prior for 2011-13, with our just coming up short of winning 2 more of those 3 Dem seats.
Living in a state where the Democrats had their proverbial foots on the neck of the emerging Republican majority (and even AFTER we established a voting majority, maintaining a Dem majority on a minority of the vote) for 140 years, I have absolutely no qualms that the legislature must act aggressively to keep the radical left at bay and to maintain their authority to be able to draw said lines.
If I could get away with drawing 27 districts in FL that looked like shredded paper strips from Key West to Pensacola to maintain an overwhelming majority for the GOP, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
BS, that's what White democrats say. Spread the Blacks out to elect 2 White democrats instead of a Black democrat and a Republican. The federal voting right acts would actually prohibit decreasing the Black % in Brown's district under a certain point. That's is a good thing. A GREAT thing actually, it helped us win many seats in the South back when democrats drew all the lines down there.
Florida's "fair redistricting" ballot initiative is BS that was pushed by the democrats. Packing democrats of whatever color into safe rat districts, leaving a majority of seats majority Republican, is the ONLY logical and patriotic thing for Republican legislators to do. This is WAR. Democrats use whatever means necessary, so must we. Super-majority Black districts are a GREAT thing for us politically, however uncooth you find them. And the Blacks like them too, because they known damn well Blacks don't win the democrat primary in districts without a high Black population. White democrats are the ones that are unhappy, they want their plantation back.
This judge is targeting GOP Congresswoman Webster for partisan reasons, he's the "rotten sack of scum bucket".