[Political Junkie Too]

“This Court will declare the enacted map unconstitutional and enjoin the Secretary of State from using that map in future congressional elections,”

Why doesn't someone challenge this to the Supreme Court?

The Constitution says to reapportion every 10 years. Florida reapportioned and held an election under the new districts. I would think that SCOTUS would decide that states cannot redistrict every time someone loses an election to "fix" the district that the Democrat party lost.

The Constitution says they get one bite at that apple per decade, and that's what SCOTUS should rule. Once an election is held against the new districts, they must remain in place until the next census and reapportionment.

-PJ

[j.havenfarm]

The Writ of Certiorari will only issue after a ruling by the highest court in the state. This needs to go the appellate and FLorida Supreme Court before SCOTUS will take it up

[Eagle Forgotten]

“The Constitution says they get one bite at that apple per decade, and that’s what SCOTUS should rule. Once an election is held against the new districts, they must remain in place until the next census and reapportionment.”

That’s not the law. The Constitution says that there must be a reapportionment after each census, but it doesn’t prohibit additional “intercensus” reapportionments.

How do I know? Because the Republicans in Texas pioneered this technique. After the 2000 census, new Congressional districts were used in the 2002 election. In the 2002 state elections, however, the Republicans gained control of state government. They then redrew the lines to be much more favorable to the GOP. The new lines were used in the 2004 elections. The Texas Congressional delegation went from 17D-15R to 21R-11D.

And SCOTUS said that was permissible.

[sipow]

You are confusing reapportionment with delimitation and redistricting.

States do not reapportion their House seats. The Federal government, via the census, reapportions the seats amongst the states. That just determines how many seats each state gets. That is mandated every ten years by the Constitution and can not be changed in between.

However the process for delimitation and drawing of congressional districts is strictly left to the states and not tied to the ten year cycle. If a state gains or loses representatives after a census, they of course are required to redistrict. But they may do so at any time.