'Throwing kerosene on every fire': DeSantis targets Black-held congressional seats. And his own part

[AZProgressive]

'Throwing kerosene on every fire': DeSantis targets Black-held congressional seats. And his own party.

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The Florida Legislature has become a front line in the nation’s culture wars, and its regular lawmaking session ends Monday after it provided a springboard for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ November re-election campaign, as well as his White House ambitions.

Now one major test remains to cement DeSantis’s first-term legacy as the strongest conservative governor in decades: undoing what’s known as a “minority access” congressional seat in north Florida held by a Black Democrat.

Ultimately, DeSantis wants a court fight aimed at provisions in the federal Voting Rights Act, as well as in the state’s Constitution, that generally prohibit the dilution of minority voting strength, according to sources familiar with the governor’s thinking.

And to do that, DeSantis is taking on the same Republican-led Legislature that has given him everything else he wanted in the run-up to his bid for a second term.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/ron-desantis-targets-black-held-congressional-seats-party-rcna19771

[Blaukraut]

1. DeSantis is a smart Trump on steroids.

Extremely dangerous because if he actually runs and wins in '24, he'll do the the nation what he's doing to his state.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. I don't know how smart he is.

One of the reasons the conservative Supreme Court dropped support for the Voting Act is because they felt the goals and objectives had been met. Ron De Santis is proof that they were wrong. Just follow his blood trail.