THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, August 20, 2015……….Senate leaders crafting new districts for the chamber in 2012 held confidential meetings to discuss maps with lawmakers before the maps were made public, while at the same time boasting about “the most open and transparent redistricting process in Florida’s history,” according to court documents. Depositions and other evidence in […]
Lawmakers whine about the courts, sunshine – Tampa Bay Times
The hot air is not just outside the state Capitol in Tallahassee. There is plenty of it inside, where Republican legislators are fuming about the audacity of the Florida Supreme Court to force them to redraw congressional districts as the state Constitution requires. They complain their constitutional rights are being violated, they are being forced […]
Fifteen Florida congressmen ask Legislature to hold statewide redistricting hearings – Miami Herald
A bipartisan group of 15 Florida congressmen on Thursday asked the state’s legislative leaders to conduct statewide hearings before redrawing the congressional maps which were ruled unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court last week. “We hope you agree that those directly affected by the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in The League of Women Voters v. […]
