Just another article about how fucked up Florida is

[In It to Win It]

Fort Myers News Press

Governors and presidents come and go, hanging around for four, maybe eight years. But the judges they appoint are here for much longer -- and the constitutional changes they make last for decades, sometimes generations.

For example, more than four decades ago, Floridians amended their Constitution to protect personal privacy. A few years later, the Supreme Court ruled, not surprisingly, that the right to privacy protected women’s access to abortion care.

Based on this constitutional guarantee, the Florida Supreme Court held that legislative restrictions impeding women’s access to abortion were “presumptively unconstitutional.” Floridians have not changed their Constitution, but Gov. DeSantis changed the membership of the Court. And the new Court allowed a 15-week ban (with no exceptions for rape or incest) to take effect while pondering its constitutionality.

In 2010, Floridians had enough of routine legislative manipulation of the electoral process and adopted Fair District Amendments to end partisan and racial gerrymandering of legislative and congressional districts.

Following the 2020 Census, Gov. DeSantis pressured the Legislature to adopt a new map that abolished two Black congressional districts despite the amendment’s requirement that “districts shall not be drawn with the intent or result of denying or abridging the equal opportunity of racial or language minorities to participate in the political process or to diminish their ability to elect representatives of their choice.”