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A federal judge in Florida tossed out Miami’s city district maps on Wednesday, ruling that the city racially gerrymandered for decades, throwing the electoral future of the city into question.

A group of civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and NAACP, sued Miami in 2022, claiming that its makeup of council districts illegally segregated residents because the city explicitly sorted districts by ethnic makeup.

Judge Michael Moore agreed in his ruling Wednesday.

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[–] Hawke 41 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I assume they’re going to ignore the ruling and use the maps anyway.

[–] DigitalTraveler42 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

As is the Florida MAGAGOP way...

[–] Hawke 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not just Florida but yes.

Ignore the ruling until it is ”too late” then shrug and say, “Sowwy we ran out of time, guess we’ll have to just use the only maps we have”.

Disgusting ratfuckery.

[–] Skepticpunk 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What's stopping them from just being like "fuck you, we're going to have a third party create a map to fit our guidelines and unless you can submit something that's at least as good as this, we're going to use it"?

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