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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis aspires to be the same kind of Autocrat despised by the founders of the United States. He must be exposed for what he is: a great threat to our Democratic Republic and American values. Republicans don't punish big businesses like the Walt Disney Company for disagreeing with them. Fascists do. DeSantis and those like him are a massive threat to our Democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The real question is…. Will he actually do it?

^nope^

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When this has happened elsewhere in the past, they kept purposefully re-doing the maps, making them just as bad or worse, until time ran out and they had to use the original bad map anyway.

Example: https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/05/05/ohio-redistricting-commission-passes-maps-already-rejected-as-illegal-by-supreme-court/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Should have 1 chance to fix it in a set time period or the other political party in your state gets to redraw it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.