Court rules against Rep. Brown, keeping state’s congressional district map intact

Posted on April 20, 2016

The long-running saga surrounding Florida’s congressional districts appears to finally be over after a three-judge panel for the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee ruled against U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown in her suit alleging the new district map approved by the Florida Supreme Court in December violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Although Taylor County’s own District 2 was not one of the eight found by the Florida Supreme Court to be in violation of the state’s Fair District Amendments in a ruling last summer, the new map drastically reconfigured the district as part of an effort to covert Brown’s serpentine north-south District 5 running from Jacksonville to Orlando into an east-west orientation spanning from Jacksonville to Tallahassee.

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