Two days after a federal appeals court blocked a new city of Miami voting map drawn by community groups from being used in the November elections, those Miami community groups have challenged that decision. On Sunday, American Civil Liberties Union lawyers representing the Miami community groups requested that the U.S. Supreme Court step in to vacate the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta and reject using the city’s map in November.
To allow the map to remain in effect would result in November elections occurring “under a system that explicitly and unconstitutionally sorts Miamians by race,” the groups said.