{"id":2012874,"date":"2023-08-26T09:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T13:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-democrats-pick-up-win-in-battle-over-gerrymandered-map\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T09:54:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T13:54:38","slug":"florida-democrats-pick-up-win-in-battle-over-gerrymandered-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-democrats-pick-up-win-in-battle-over-gerrymandered-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Democrats win battle against gerrymandered map."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-democrats-pick-up-win-in-battle-over-gerrymandered-map%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012874&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Democrats in Florida Poised to \u200dGain\u2063 House Seat\u2063 After Resolving\u200d Gerrymandering Dispute<\/h2>\n<p>Democrats in Florida are \u200bon the verge of\u2062 securing an additional seat in the House following the successful resolution of a contentious mapping \u2063dispute that had favored Republicans. \u200bThis development comes\u200c after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-mcdonalds-ceo-pays-company-105-million-in-settlement\/\" title=\"Former McDonald\u2019s CEO Pays Company 5 Million In Settlement\">prolonged legal battle<\/a> \u2064between Florida, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fighting-back-republican-creates-response-to-stacey-abrams-voter-organization-in-georgia-adds-focus-on-election-integrity\/\" title=\"Fighting Back: Republican Creates Response To Stacey Abrams\u2019 Voter Organization In Georgia, Adds Focus On \u2018Election Integrity\u2019\">voting rights groups<\/a>, and the state&#8217;s redistricting process.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Florida and voting rights \u2063groups clashed over\u200d the redrawn \u2064voting district maps, alleging that some changes were unfairly disadvantageous to black voters. To find a resolution,\u200d both parties \u200dagreed to focus on a\u2062 specific district in Tallahassee with a majority black voter\u2062 population. As a result, they agreed to drop their cases in\u200b other parts \u200cof the\u200b state.<\/p>\n<h3>Positive Progress for Black Voters<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;This is \u2064a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-ag-paxton-slams-brutal-reality-of-bidens-immigration-agenda-as-title-42-expires-thursday\/\" title=\"Texas AG Paxton criticizes Biden's immigration plan as Title 42 ends on Thursday.\">promising step forward<\/a> for Black voters whose\u2062 voting power was\u2062 disgracefully targeted by Governor DeSantis in \u200chis quest\u2064 for artificial power,&#8221; expressed\u200b Olivia \u2063Mendoza, director of litigation and policy for the left-leaning National \u2063Redistricting Foundation. &#8220;Floridians deserve fair maps \u2063\u2014 and \u200csuccess \u2064in this case will \u2064deliver \u2064a major step in that direction,&#8221; she \u2064added.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida\u2062 GOP gained four congressional seats last year when Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) redrew the state&#8217;s districts, giving Republicans a majority in the House. Currently, Republicans control 20 out of\u200c 28 House seats in\u2063 Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Florida is not \u2063the only state \u2062facing legal pressure \u200bregarding\u2063 maps favoring Republicans. Wisconsin\u200c also faced a lawsuit\u200d after its Republican leadership attempted\u200c to\u200b alter its \u2063congressional\u2062 maps \u2064in a way that disadvantaged Democrats. However, the\u200d appointment of a \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-democrats-pick-up-win-in-battle-over-gerrymandered-map\/\" title=\"Florida Democrats win battle against gerrymandered map.\">liberal state supreme\u200b court justice<\/a> in Wisconsin may provide a response to this \u200bissue.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Janet Protasiewicz, who was appointed this \u200dyear and contributed to a \u2063liberal-majority supreme court in the\u2064 state,\u2063 publicly criticized\u200c the maps, stating that they were &#8220;rigged.&#8221; This opinion suggests that she would likely support redrawing the state\u2062 maps\u2063 to make\u200c them more equitable for\u2062 Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2062 is \u200calso grappling\u200c with a legal\u200b battle over redistricting. The state&#8217;s congressional maps are currently being challenged in New York Courts, and it is\u2063 expected that \u2062the liberal-leaning New York\u2064 Court of Appeals will rule \u2064in favor \u2064of redrawing the maps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ \u200bMORE FROM THE \u2063WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats in Florida are set to gain another House seat as they resolve a dispute over gerrymandering. The state&#8217;s redrawn voting district maps, which favored Republicans, have been a subject of legal contention with Florida and voting rights groups since last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2012875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}