Florida: Redistricting measures and lawsuits keeping things interesting
A pair of lawsuits seeking to knock three redistricting proposals off Florida’s Nov. 2 ballot have touched off a legal and political free-for-all. It includes now-independent Gov. Charlie Crist, Democratic former Gov. and ex-U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, both houses of the Republican controlled Legislature and two members of Congress. A judge allowed Graham to intervene Thursday in one of the lawsuits. Crist filed written arguments as a “friend of the court” opposing stances taken by the Legislature in both cases earlier this week.