DeSantis Argues LA v. Callais Ruling Nullifies Florida’s Fair Districts Amendments

DeSantis Argues LA v. Callais Ruling Nullifies Florida’s Fair Districts Amendments

By: Liv Caputo, The Florida Phoenix Pushing the Florida Legislature to approve his redrawn congressional maps, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office is using the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to trash a Louisiana congressional map as evidence that Florida’s anti-gerrymandering amendment is invalid. “Florida’s intentional compliance with the [Fair Districts Amendment] … would require Florida to ‘satisfy the extraordinarily onerous standard of proving that it…