For the last four years, Democrats in DC and Florida have been hoping and praying for the day when courts would strike down a Republican gerrymander. And yet now that the Florida Supreme Court has done exactly that, it looks more like a case of "Be careful what you wish for." Last Friday, the Florida Supreme Court threw the state's 2016 congressional elections into chaos when it invalidated the boundaries of eight of the state's 27 districts and ordered the GOP-led legislature to go back to the drawing board. In its 172-page ruling, the court slammed the GOP for flouting the state's 2010 "Fair Districts" anti-gerrymandering amendments, and threatened to draw its own map if the GOP didn't come up with its own in 100 days. The problem for Democrats: a court instructing a GOP legislature to redraw a map without any partisan motive is akin to a farmer telling a famished fox to guard a hen house. In fact, Republicans could theoretically comply with the court's very specific instructions and still draw an even better map than they have
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