{"id":167,"date":"2026-05-27T18:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertytransitionmedia.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:20:23","slug":"judge-hands-russia-hoaxer-marc-elias-major-loss-by-upholding-floridas-new-congressional-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertytransitionmedia.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Judge Hands Russia Hoaxer Marc Elias Major Loss By Upholding Florida’s New Congressional Map"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No matter how hard he tries, leftist lawyer Marc Elias can\u2019t seem to stop losing in court.<\/p>\n

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The infamous Russia collusion hoaxer faced yet another legal humiliation on Tuesday when a Florida judge shot down his effort to block the Sunshine State\u2019s new congressional map. Signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this month, the redistricted map looks to swing four U.S. House seats in Republicans\u2019 favor during the upcoming 2026 midterms.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce again, we beat Marc Elias. Florida\u2019s new congressional district maps stand,\u201d Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wrote on X. <\/p>\n

While not ruling on the merits of the case, state Circuit Judge Joshua Hawkes, a DeSantis appointee, the Elias Law Group\u2019s and other challengers\u2019 \u201cextraordinary and drastic\u201d request to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the new map from going into effect. <\/p>\n

The circuit judge notably determined that plaintiffs\u2019 \u201cevidence at this stage is insufficient to support the permissibility of this Court forcing the [state\u2019s] 2022 map onto the electorate in contravention of the duly enacted 2026 map.\u201d Should plaintiffs \u201cprevail,\u201d he wrote, \u201cit seems the proper remedy is not for the Court to order a particular map, but for it to order the Legislature to redraw the map in a constitutional manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

That determination followed Hawkes\u2019 analysis that Florida\u2019s executive and legislative branches moved to redraw the map in \u201canticipation\u201d of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s Louisiana v. Callais<\/em> decision, which kneecapped states\u2019 ability to engage in race-based redistricting. He observed that the \u201cevidence\u201d presented by Elias and Co. \u201cfocuses on challenging the constitutionality of the 2026 map, but does not sufficiently challenge the political branches\u2019 finding that CD-20 in the 2022 map was drawn with impermissible racial intent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would seem presumptive on a limited evidentiary record and rushed proceedings to overturn both the Legislature\u2019s 2026 map while also overturning their finding that the 2022 map is unconstitutional,\u201d Hawkes wrote. \u201cThis is especially so where, if the Legislature and the Governor are correct that the 2022 map has racial classifications, Plaintiffs would have to provide this Court with sufficient evidence under strict scrutiny to justify the Court ordering its use again.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The DeSantis appointee went on to explain the traditional factors judges take into account when deciding whether to grant a party\u2019s request for a temporary injunction. He notably found that \u201cthere is insufficient evidence\u201d to show that challengers enjoy a \u201csubstantial likelihood of success on the merits\u201d of their claims, and that \u201cthe balance of hardships and the public interest weigh heavily against the issuance of an injunction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe election machinery of the state is already underway. \u2026 Similar to the town election in Walker v. Best<\/em>, it is more difficult for the much larger ship of statewide elections to change directions at this juncture,\u201d Hawkes wrote. \u201cThe primary is less than three months away, and the general less than six months. The public interest weighs more in favor of certainty than a haphazard judicial mandate of discarded maps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plaintiffs reportedly plan to appeal the ruling. <\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s decision is the latest in a string of legal defeats for Elias, who boasts a long history of waging legal warfare against common-sense election laws and related measures.<\/p>\n

Despite his group\u2019s best anti-election integrity efforts, the GOP and North Carolina election officials inked an agreement last week that stipulates the latter must follow state law by doing \u201cmore to keep noncitizens off the state\u2019s voter rolls,\u201d as The Federalist\u2019s Matt Kittle reported. The consent judgment came weeks after a Louisiana court rejected the Elias Law Group\u2019s attempt to force the Pelican State to hold elections under its unconstitutional congressional map.<\/p>\n

Elias endured yet another loss in late March when a Wisconsin court denied his organization\u2019s bid to nuke the state\u2019s current congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms. Had the court ruled in his favor, it would have cleared the way for the drawing of a new map that would be friendlier to Democrats.<\/p>\n

The Russia collusion hoaxer also saw a series of losses in the year prior, in which his legal challenges to Wyoming\u2019s proof-of-citizenship law and Kansas\u2019 ban on foreign funding of state ballot initiative campaigns went down in flames.<\/p>\n

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