A Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution and is prohibited from being used for any future U.S. congressional elections since it diminishes the ability of Black voters in north Florida to pick a...
  • visak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    10 months ago

    Florida Circuit Court Judges can be removed at the recommendation of the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission, and approved by the Florida Supreme Court. The FJQC has mixture of members appointed by the governor and voted in by other judges. I left Florida a long time ago so I don’t know who are currently in the commission and court but the Florida political pipeline has always been extremely corrupt.

    They’ll most likely just appeal this ruling to at least stall it, but given that DeSantis has been outright removing prosecutors he doesn’t like I would not be shocked if he started using the above system to remove judges next. This judge was appointed by Rick Scott by the way.

    • ares35@kbin.social
      2·
      10 months ago

      not willingly, anyway. gotta keep it tied-up in the courts long enough so that becomes “too late” to change the maps for 2024.