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.
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”?