@Thomassmit8706 @ElectionCenter_ It is partisan. The guy that drew it admitted it.
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Nick
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Nick
@Cerebus77
FSU alumni and fan. TLH Craft beer enthusiast. Shark tooth hunter. Friend of DeSoto
Tallahassee, FL Katılım Kasım 2010
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This should be a slam dunk. The Florida constitution is quite clear on the ban of partisan gerrymandering. The Florida supreme court upholding the map would be an unprecedented defiance of a states constitution and should warrant federal intervention from the federal courts.
The Redistrict Network@RedistrictNet
Plaintiffs assert that the new Florida congressional map violates the state constitution’s ban on partisan gerrymandering and non-compactness, and the state constitution’s requirement to use political and geographic boundaries to draw new districts.
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@SJonNantucket @ElectionCenter_ you don’t throw out an entire constitutional amendment just because one part of it may be an issue. Partisan gerrymandering is specifically prohibited by the Fair Districts Amendment. The guy that drew the map admitted that it was a partisan gerrymander.
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@ElectionCenter_ The problem is the Fair Districts Amendment specifically takes into account race which now makes it unconstitutional
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@TheOldCrusty @TheStatsRobot Political gerrymandering is explicitly forbidden by the Fair Districts Amendment, and the guy that created the map admitted to political gerrymandering.
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@TheStatsRobot There's your mistake. You think what Florida did was against their state constitution. It wasn't. However, what Virginia did was. Doesn't matter that they held a vote. Virginia state gov was told before hand that the election result doesn't weigh on the constitutionality.
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@manonafast @ASFleischman Clearly you're leaving Trump out of this requirement, given how many many many many times he has said outright horrible things.
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@ASFleischman if you're a public servant and you wish for another human to die you should be shamed out of your job, the court of public opinion needs to rule on shameful behavior, that's its purpose, we can have free speech and still shame people for speech we don't like
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WV prosecutors dismissed this case today.
Ms. Morrow's statement is constitutionally protected.
You have a First Amendment right to hope the President dies.
lawandcrime.com/high-profile/c…
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@MiamiPDScanner @marceelias Why are you celebrating the potential elimination of the voter supported ban on partisan gerrymandering in Florida?
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@marceelias
Your 2015 “receipt” is cute, but it’s from a different Florida Supreme Court that no longer exists.
Back then, you had a 5-justice liberal-leaning majority (Labarga, Pariente, Lewis, Quince, Perry) that struck down the map.
Today?
DeSantis has appointed 6 of the 7 justices. The court is now unanimously conservative.
That same court already upheld DeSantis’s aggressive 2022 map in Black Voters Matter (2025) and has every incentive to do it again, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court just narrowed the Voting Rights Act on April 29.
The Fair Districts Amendment’s partisan-gerrymandering ban is on life support under this bench, and you know it. Pretending the 2015 precedent controls 2026 is legal nostalgia, not serious advocacy.
DeSantis isn’t “afraid.” He’s just not in a hurry to give you another fundraising email.
The map will be signed, it will be defended, and you’ll continue to cope and seethe.
😘
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Anyone who is wondering why DeSantis is waiting to sign the new Florida map it is because he is scared he will lose in court. I beat Republicans before when they broke the state constitution by partisan redistricting and I will do it again.
Here are my receipts.
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@WilkCathy @marceelias Calling people assholes and praying to god in vindictiveness shows exactly the kind of person you are.
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@marceelias You really are an asshole. It’s no wonder you’re one of the most hated people in this country. Do you think you’re so high and minded that no one can take you down, I’m going to be praying for God to do just that.
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red...harris...no fucking way
Central Scooby-Doo!@doocentral
🚨 Kamton Kumpe foi escalado como um personagem chamado Red Harris em ‘Scooby-Doo! A Origem’. Fonte: IMDB e seu próprio Instagram, onde sua agência de talentos afirma que ele conseguiu um papel recorrente em uma série aguardada. ESSE RED HARRIS É QUEM EU TÔ PENSANDO?
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@showusyourwork Ranked choice would alleviate a lot of this country's ills.
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There's only one way to actually make a "gerrymandering ban" work, and that's to get rid of districts. It's very simple: multimember statewide Congressional representation. You can do this with ranked choice, party lists, etc. Ask a political scientist or voting expert about this
Micah Erfan@micah_erfan
Even without the VRA, Democrats could still come out ahead in the redistricting wars. However, this is a race to hell. We need a nationwide gerrymandering ban.
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@dbsb3233 @ms8955a @nathanlgonzales So congress is about to become almost entirely white in the south, and you think that's a good thing.
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@ms8955a @nathanlgonzales Drawing districts by race is racial discrimination. It was allowed as a "make up call" for 6 decades to offset the discrimination that took place prior to that in the other direction. Both were wrong. It's about time the practice ended (either direction).
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By the same logic, California should be 52-0 for Democrats.
Will Ainsworth@willainsworthAL
Alabama Republicans control both U.S. Senate seats, all constitutional offices, every state judgeship, and have legislative supermajorities, so it makes perfect sense for us to hold every congressional seat, too. We are bright red state, and our congressional map should show it.
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@willainsworthAL so 36% of the voting population are Democrats, and 8.72% are independents, and they deserve zero representation. Got it.
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Alabama Republicans control both U.S. Senate seats, all constitutional offices, every state judgeship, and have legislative supermajorities, so it makes perfect sense for us to hold every congressional seat, too. We are bright red state, and our congressional map should show it.
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@MappingFL Even if the Florida SC strikes minority protections, it would be baffling to throw out the amendment entirely when that provision is easily separated from the restriction on partisan gerrymandering.
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Sticking with Florida for a moment
The Callais decision is NOT what DeSantis wanted. He insisted the court would strike down the use of race entirely and hence invalidate Florida’s own racial protections
That didn’t happen. Means Florida’s Fair Districts are still the law
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@can_tdisplay @Jason_Garcia @AnnaForFlorida They expect the US Supreme Court to throw out the Voting Rights Act, and then the Florida Supreme Court to toss the Fair Districts Amendment because a portion of it protects minority rights.
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@Jason_Garcia @AnnaForFlorida But honestly, why would they invalidate it? He's a lame duck.
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Ron DeSantis and Florida's Republican-controlled Legislature are about to approve new Congressional maps that were *intentionally* drawn to violate an anti-gerrymandering constitutional amendment that was approved by 63 percent of Florida voters.
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@nagaeboko1 @ClayTravis I like how you hold Comey to a waaaaay higher standard than Trump, who has posted, publicly, dozes of things worse than this, and is in the highest position in the land. Don't normalize Trump's behavior by completely ignoring it.
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I don’t think he was genuinely threatening Trump.
But what a stupid, childish display from someone at his level of seniority.
What the hell was he doing? Thinking?
A six year old could have come up with that. He’s in his 60’s.
Can you imagine what that must have looked like? The former head of the FBI, walking the beach, picking up seashells and spelling that out.
And the he's so proud of himself that he puts it on instagram like a dumbass teenager.
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James Comey is likely to face a Trump voting jury in North Carolina. He picked the wrong seashore to make a seashell message. Smart prosecution here. Great venue and a simple case. Comey is a moron to put himself in this legal peril over an Instagram picture.
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@1proudliberal @lmower3 @GovRonDeSantis Once the Supreme Court throws out the rest of the Voting Rights Act, Florida is going to argue the Fair Districts Amendment must go, when in reality, only THAT portion should be tossed, IF that's even necessary.
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@1proudliberal @lmower3 @GovRonDeSantis (a) No apportionment plan or individual district shall be drawn...with the intent or result of denying or abridging the equal opportunity of racial or language minorities to participate in the political process or to diminish their ability to elect representatives of their choice
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The state employee who drew up @GovRonDeSantis' redistricting map just said that he used party affiliation to do it.
The map, in theory, gives 4 more seats to Republicans, giving them 85% of congressional seats.
Republicans make up 39% of Florida voters.
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@BconnectedJ @fawfulfan The 2020 census run by the Trump administration was a cheat by Democrats? How, exactly?
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@fawfulfan 2020 census did undercount Florida. It was in the news.
Weird how many ways libs cheat.
Thanks for reminding me so I could spread the word.
See a pattern? 😂😂😂
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It's notable that the excuse Ron DeSantis is going with for his blatant partisan gerrymander is that the Census "undercounted" Florida, yet his map takes a hacksaw to the two Florida metro areas — Orlando and Jacksonville — that are seeing the highest population growth.
Siddharth Khurana@SidKhurana3607
Fastest growing 1M+ metros from 2020-2025: Austin, TX: 2.3M → 2.6M (+14%) Raleigh, NC: 1.4M → 1.6M (+13%) Jacksonville, FL: 1.6M → 1.8M (+11%) Dallas, TX: 7.7M → 8.5M (+11%) Orlando, FL: 2.7M → 3.0M (+10%) Houston, TX: 7.2M → 7.9M (+10%)
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@VecchTweets @jamesetta_w Florida is not proposing a change to the constitution. The legislature is just choosing to ignore it.
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@jamesetta_w Virginia's gerrymander was outlawed by the Constitution. They changed the Constitution. That is what we are doing here.
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I realize that laws don't matter anymore, but for me if you are going to cover Florida redistricting, you must lead with the fact that whatever is being proposed here is explicitly prohibited by the state constitution. What are we even doing here.
Dave Wasserman@Redistrict
NEW: per Fox News, new FL map proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) would target four Dem seats, aiming to convert a 20R-8D delegation to 24R-4D. But in a year like 2026, not all of the 24 seats would be safe for the GOP. More from @CookPolitical soon. foxnews.com/politics/ron-d…
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@HarrisonWFields This would be a violation of the state's constitution and the will of the voters who passed the Fair Districts Amendment.
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To my friends in Tallahassee: in a state that is ruby red, it’s time to respond to what we saw tonight in Virginia with a redistricting plan that reflects Florida’s true partisan lean—and adds 3–4 GOP seats to our supermajority.
Virginia is a purple state being drawn as deep blue. Florida should draw a map that’s even redder—and get it passed ASAP.
Cc:
@GovRonDeSantis
@Daniel_PerezFL
@FLSenate
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@AttorneyJPo @ASFleischman @AdeleScalia Unfortunately, I think this works out better for Republicans in the long wrong. The population is shifting toward Republican states. Once Section 2 is thrown out, Republicans will eventually win control of the House and never give it up again.
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@ASFleischman @AdeleScalia Dems asked for a bilateral disarmament pact. Rs said no. Then Rs started shooting. So Dems shot back.
Shoulda taken the peace offering. Shouldn't have started shooting.
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There is NO WAY the democrats can defend this redistricting on its own merits. It has everything to do with their hatred of Trump and nothing to do with what’s good for VA.
Governor Abigail Spanberger@GovernorVA
Virginia voters have spoken, and tonight they pushed back against a President who claims he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress. As we watched other states go along with those demands without voter input, Virginians refused to let that stand. We responded the right way: at the ballot box.
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