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.
Crist’s schtick as Governor was that he was Post-Partisan. He did a lot of kissing up to liberal black legislators. If his judicial appointments rule against the interests of the Dems, will Crist disavow him like he has with so many past positions?