(The Center Square) \u2013 The Florida Supreme Court denied a challenge to new congressional maps on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court was asked to intervene in the ongoing case under consideration by the First District Court of Appeal. Petitioners, including the Equal Ground Education Fund, are seeking a temporary injunction in the case.<\/p>\n
The justices said they do not have jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis court\u2019s denial of the requested writ in this case simply reflects its respect for the constitution\u2019s allocation of judicial power across the State\u2019s different courts and the limited authority the constitution gives us to intervene in appeals pending in the district courts. The process in this case has operated as the constitution requires,\u201d wrote Justice Adam Tanenbaum.<\/p>\n
Gov. Ron DeSantis called a special session earlier this year for the legislature to consider redrawing congressional districts. The governor took to X Wednesday afternoon after the Supreme Court announced its decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Florida Supreme Court has rejected the challenge to the state\u2019s redistricting plan and new map. This assures that the recently enacted map will be in place for the 2026 election,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n
Attorney General James Uthmeier called the ruling a \u201ccomplete and total victory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Equal Ground Executive Director Genesis Robinson criticized the redistricting as a \u201cbrazen partisan power grab.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Florida Constitution is clear: districting maps should not be drawn to favor a political party. And by allowing a map designed to deliver approximately 86% of Florida’s congressional districts to a single party to remain in place, the Court has turned a blind eye to the very protections voters enshrined in our Constitution,\u201d said Robinson. \u201cYet again, Florida voters will be forced to endure another election cycle under a map drawn in open defiance of the Fair Districts Amendment \u2013 a constitutional mandate that 63% of Floridians passed to protect voters from unfair and discriminatory redistricting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Justice Tanenbaum said they would have their chance in court.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people of Florida can rest assured that elections will take place this year\u2014under a redistricting law and an election code enacted by their Legislature, all as administered by various, capable state and local election officials\u2014following which they will have their duly apportioned allotment of elected representatives in Congress. In the meantime, the plaintiffs will have their days in court, in due course, to be heard on the merits of their challenge to the new redistricting law\u2014all in comportment with the reformed judicial system established by the people through their constitution,\u201d said Tanenbaum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(The Center Square) \u2013 The Florida Supreme Court denied a challenge to new congressional maps on Wednesday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2715,28,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-304958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-elections","tag-florida","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304958","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=304958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}