House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said he\u2019s prepared to sue to stop Florida from redrawing its congressional districts.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy words to Ron DeSantis are: \u2018See you in court,\u2019\u201d Jeffries said on the \u201cOn NOTUS\u201d podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jeffries said the new Florida map, which the state legislature approved<\/a> Wednesday, is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n Since 2010, the Florida Constitution has prohibited drawing congressional districts to benefit one party and has required that, where possible, districts should follow county and city boundaries.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Ron DeSantis dummy-mandering does the exact opposite,\u201d Jeffries told host Kadia Goba. \u201cWe will sue immediately upon it being signed into law. If we get to that point, it\u2019s unconstitutional under state law. We also believe it violates the 14th Amendment by intentionally discriminating and targeting, particularly, Latinos in Central Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n In the past year, six states, including Florida, have voluntarily redrawn their congressional maps, beginning with Texas passing a new map to benefit President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n \u201cRepublicans started this redistricting fight, and we\u2019ve made clear we\u2019re going to finish it. And so Republicans expected that they were going to net 10, 12, 15 seats. Right now, they\u2019re not up. They\u2019re down,\u201d Jeffries said.<\/p>\n Jeffries spoke with NOTUS before the Supreme Court released a decision limiting the Voting Rights Act<\/a>, which will likely affect future redistricting efforts.<\/p>\n Jeffries argued that Republican states are redrawing their districts rather than campaigning on their track record in office because Trump\u2019s policies \u201chave been a complete and total failure.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey have nothing to run on,\u201d he said. \u201cSo that is the reason why they launched this redistricting battle, claiming that they were going to give themselves an advantage. They wanted to rig the midterm elections so that they were the ones to decide who was going to be in the majority in the next Congress, not the voters.\u201d<\/p>\n Some Republicans argue that their redistricting efforts are in response to Democrats\u2019 new maps and are meant to cement Trump\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the day, all that Mike Johnson will have accomplished, all that Republicans will have accomplished is that we\u2019re in the same place where we started,\u201d Jeffries added. \u201cThat\u2019s their best-case scenario. \u2026 They\u2019re down right now in a battle that they started.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOn NOTUS\u201d is a weekly podcast<\/a> where NOTUS reporters talk to lawmakers about how they got to Washington and what motivates them. You can download or listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said he\u2019s prepared to sue to stop Florida from redrawing its congressional districts.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-253867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}