http://www.tampabay.com/news/politic...cts-to/2236734TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court took a wrecking ball to Florida's political landscape Thursday, throwing out the state's carefully crafted congressional districts drawn by the GOP-led Legislature and ordering a new map within 100 days.
In the historic 5-2 ruling, the court not only ruled the maps were the product of an uncons utional political gerrymandering, it signaled its deep distrust of lawmakers and provided detailed instructions on how to repair the flawed map in time for the 2016 election.
"This is a complete victory for the people of Florida who passed the Fair District amendment and sought fair representation where the Legislature didn't pick their voters," said David King, lead attorney for the League of Women Voters and the coalition of voter groups which brought the challenge. "The Supreme Court accepted every challenge we made and ordered the Legislature to do it over.''
The new maps are likely to reconfigure nearly all of the state's 27 congressional districts, open the door to new candidates, and threaten in bents, who will now face a new set of boundary lines and cons uents close to the 2016 election.
What's interesting is they already had to redraw it last year as well. Florida gained 4 seats in the 2010 census, and naturally, there are going to be butt-hurt boutonites.
you're so ing stupid and ideologically blind
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