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2015 was filled with redistricting headaches in Florida until Congressional lines were finally redrawn. But as Matt Galka tells us, Florida Congresswoman wants them all thrown out because she says the new maps violate the federal Voting Rights Act– and got her day in court Friday.

Florida’s Congressional districts could be in jeopardy again. Attorneys for Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D-Jacksonville) asked a federal court in Tallahassee for an injunction Friday morning.

Brown bussed in supporters from her redrawn 5^th Congressional district. It used to run from Jacksonville south to Orlando, but now it’s set to run west to Tallahassee.
“This was an opportunity, the perfect storm to get rid of Corrine Brown,” she told her supporters.

Brown held a press conference at a country food restaurant after the hearing where her supporters ate. She was joined by Martin Luther King III.

“It may be that we have to come back again, because we must come back until we see victory,” said King.

Brown says the new map violates the Voting Rights Act, but it will be hard to prove that African-Americans can’t elect a candidate of their choosing in the newly drawn district.

“We have these black and poor pockets all over this state and all over this country, and they need a voice. We don’t need to go back to what it was before,” said U.S. Rep. Brown.

The Congresswoman said she’s prepared to take her case to the U.S. Supreme Court if needed.

“Do not disenfranchise the people that I represent, and the League of Women voters don’t speak for nobody in this room,” she said.

Brown’s old district is considered one of the most gerrymandered congressional districts in the country.

If the court sides with Brown and grants an injunction it would effect all 27 Congressional districts throughout the state. Brown’s lawsuit also comes at a time when she’s being investigated because of ties to a questionable charity being looked at by the Department of Justice.