In October, a District Court ruled the redrawn map was unlawful, violated the Voting Rights Act and ordered a new one should be created.
Later, the Fifth Circuit put its ruling on hold and is due to review it next year, two months after Texas’ primary contest in March 2024.
Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law, told the news network that the case has “broader implications.”
“The [Fifth Circuit] court of appeals justified letting the unlawful map stay in place in a way that will make it much harder, going forward, for plaintiffs in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas to persuade any federal judge to block an unlawful map except in very short windows after elections take place,” he said.
Leon County Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh said in September that a suit against the map, approved by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, was correct.
The map “results in the diminishment of Black voters’ ability to elect their candidate of choice in violation of the Florida constitution,” Judge Marsh wrote in a ruling.
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In October, a District Court ruled the redrawn map was unlawful, violated the Voting Rights Act and ordered a new one should be created.
Later, the Fifth Circuit put its ruling on hold and is due to review it next year, two months after Texas’ primary contest in March 2024.
Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law, told the news network that the case has “broader implications.”
“The [Fifth Circuit] court of appeals justified letting the unlawful map stay in place in a way that will make it much harder, going forward, for plaintiffs in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas to persuade any federal judge to block an unlawful map except in very short windows after elections take place,” he said.
Leon County Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh said in September that a suit against the map, approved by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, was correct.
The map “results in the diminishment of Black voters’ ability to elect their candidate of choice in violation of the Florida constitution,” Judge Marsh wrote in a ruling.
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