Florida GOP illlegally gerrymandered redistricting to favor party

The Florida Legislature illegally drew the state’s congressional districts to primarily benefit the Republican Party, a judge ruled Thursday as he ordered them redrawn. here

Judge Terry Lewis blasted the GOP-controlled state Legislature for working with political consultants to make a ‘mockery’ of Florida’s Fair Districts amendments — passed by voters in 2010 — that call for the decennial redistricting process to be conducted without taking into account partisan makeup or incumbent advantage. ‘Republican political consultants or operatives did in fact conspire to manipulate and influence the redistricting process,’ 
Lewis writes in the opinion.”