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| Circuit Judge Terry Lewis |
A Leon County judgey ordered the state to use a map of congressional districts drawn by a coalition of voting-rights groups during the next three elections. The brief final judgment, written by Circuit Judge Terry Lewis, was a formality; Lewis had already recommended the coalition's proposal to the Florida Supreme Court, which supported his ruling in a Dec. 2 decision. "Plan CP-1 shall be utilized in the 2016 Florida congressional elections and in Florida congressional elections thereafter until the next decennial redistricting," Lewis wrote. The original draft of the congressional map --- drawn by the Legislature in 2012 and tweaked in 2014 --- was struck down by the Supreme Court in July for violating a voter-approved ban on gerrymandering. Lawmakers will try again in 2022, two years after the U.S. Census. U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., is challenging the redistricting plan in federal court.
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