SCOTUS uses City map for upcoming election

 From the Miami Herald:

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a legal battle over which voting map should be used for Miami’s upcoming elections, deciding that a map drawn by the city should be used. The map, approved by the City Commission in June after a federal judge rejected an initial map drawn in 2022, leaves one commissioner in his district and places a candidate outside of the district he’s lived in for 20 years. After several appeals that moved the case through federal courts, the Supreme Court decided that a map drawn by the city be used to determine who can vote and who can run for City Commission seats in districts 1, 2 and 4 in the Nov. 7 elections. Three incumbents are running for reelection: District 1 Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla, District 2 Commissioner Sabina Covo and District 4 Commissioner Manolo Reyes. In the city map, District 3 Commissioner Joe Carollo’s home remains inside his district — the other map placed his home outside of his district, which could have led to a residency issue for Carollo.