A lawyer for veteran Congresswoman Corrine Brown relied mostly on the region’s long history of discrimination against blacks in an attempt to convince a three-judge panel to block a new North Florida congressional district from going into effect.
But during arguments in federal court on March 25, two of the judges appeared skeptical that the new district, which spans 200 miles from Jacksonville to west of Tallahassee, would put black voters at a disadvantage.
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