The Florida House passed a new congressional map on Thursday just after Democratic lawmakers shut down the state's special legislative session for more than an hour with a pray-in and sit-in inside the chamber.
Thursday just after Democratic legislators shut down the state's special legislative session for more than an hour with a pray-in and a sit-in inside the chamber.
In all, four Black legislators and a Hispanic representative — Hinson, Angie Nixon, Travaris McCurdy, Felicia Robinson and Daisy Morales — occupied the center of the chamber as bewildered Republicans looked on. “Right now, we bind up all of the works of the Adversary — all of the works of the Adversary — seeking to divide us, seeking to distract us with a culture war," she said. "We refocused us on your two highest and greatest commandments: that we would love you and that we would love each other, and that people would know you by our works and how we treat one another."
Instead, the GOP majority took the floor in force an hour later, determined to pass the map. Hinson stood at the center of the floor, on the seal, while Nixon and McCurdy sat beside her."Stand up, fight back!" McCurdy shouted back. The speaker then took up legislation to change The Walt Disney Co.'s special self-governing statute. Nixon and McCurdy kept chanting while Republicans voted again and won, applauding once again, and the session came to a close.
GOP legislators, with little incentive to continue fighting with their popular governor, advanced his map rapidly this week.“Our job is to pass something that complies with the Florida Constitution, including those Fair Districts provisions, and with the federal Voting Rights Act,” said state Rep. Joseph Geller, a Democrat who represents parts of Broward and Miami-Dade counties. “Our job is to comply with the law as it exists, and this map plainly does not do that.
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