DeSantis argues LA v. Callais ruling nullifies Florida’s Fair Districts Amendments

Pushing the Florida Legislature to approve his redrawn congressional maps, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office is using the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to trash a Louisiana congressional map as evidence that Florida’s anti-gerrymandering amendment is invalid.

“Florida’s intentional compliance with the [Fair Districts Amendment] … would require Florida to ‘satisfy the extraordinarily onerous standard of proving that its use of race was narrowly tailored to further a compelling governmental interest,’” announced DeSantis’ general counsel, David Axelman, …