2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: Florida

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

I have no idea why the Republican legislature doesn't just pass it. If Hochul can get her gerrymander done and passed with no opposition then Republican's shouldn't disarm and allow Democrats to take more seats than they have to.
I literally can't understand the Florida legislature's thinking at all.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

If DeSantis will just veto any non-gerrymander map (looking likely at this point), why wouldn't the legislature just pass his map?
If they don't pass his map it'll just end up in the courts anyway because they'll have no map at all, so if they're afraid of the map ending up in court why don't they just pass DeSantis' map if it'll end up in court either way?

And if they really wanted to they could pass both DeSantis' map and their usual map as a backup in the case that DeSantis' map gets overturned by the courts.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

Here is what I don't get. If no map is passed, the court draws a map. Why would DeSantis want that? As to the internecine Pub battle of the maps, they are not that much different, so why is DeSantis freaking out over not that much? I don't get that either. Does DeSantis have psychological problems? That is meant as a serious rather than tendentious question. The man genuinely puzzles me.

Well before the legislature passed a map and a "backup map". Couldn't DeSantis do the same? Have a backup in case the map he wants is thrown out?

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

This is clearly what the legislature should have done from the start.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

I don't think DeSantis' map will get overturned. Lawson's seat isn't VRA-protected so it won't go to federal courts. Florida courts are famously very partisan R. If New York's won't get overturned by their court (which is mostly made up of judges confirmed by a Republican legislature) then DeSantis won't have his map overturned.