Ron DeSantis sued for trying to deny 3 Black districts any representatives for a full year

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/16/2058452/-Ron-DeSantis-just-got-sued-for-his-latest-scheme-to-strangle-democracy

Four voters in southern Florida sued Gov. Ron DeSantis in Broward County court on Friday, asking the state to compel DeSantis to schedule special elections in three legislative districts where legislators recently resigned.

The state Senator from District 33 and representatives from House Districts 94 and 88 stepped down this summer, as required by Florida law, to run in a special Congressional election to replace the late Rep. Alcee Hastings. All three of the districts have majority Black populations.

Florida’s constitution also requires the governor to schedule special elections when vacancies arise, and while DeSantis has been expeditious in declaring election dates in the past, even acting sometimes on the same day as a representative’s resignation, the governor has made the residents of these three districts wait for an unprecedented length of time.

“Left to his own devices, the Governor would deprive the residents of Senate District 33, House District 88, and House District 94 of their constitutionally-protected voice in the Capitol,” the suit alleges. “The Governor has failed to perform his statutorily proscribed ministerial duty to fix the dates of special elections for those three districts, where Petitioners reside. The vacancies in these districts arose over 75 days ago. No other Governor in living memory has waited even half this long to schedule a special election.”

Over the past 20 years, the average wait time has been just under a week.

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[spanone]

1. K&R

[FloridaBlues]

2. What took them so long to file this suite? We know if republican area this wouldn't happen

He would call election within a week.

[Fla Dem]

3. DeathSantis is a small dick, racist, corrupt thug.

[Ohio Joe]

4. Agreed...

The fucker needs to go.

[hay rick]

5. Polishing his racist cred for the base.

[Snackshack]

6. This is never going to stop

On its own. The GOP is has broke bad and they are going to continue to try and kill democracy so the can have a permanent hold on power. They want America to be just like Russia with them being the Oligarchs in control of everything. They have been working towards this for decades now and in the last ~5 yrs have made stunning progress towards that.

[NoMoreRepugs]

7. The Republican game plan is on full display.

[malaise]

8. Lock up this monster

That is all