State v. Fla. State Conf. of NAACP Branches, 43 So. 3d 662 (Fla. 2010). After these efforts to defeat the FairDistricts Amendments at the ballot box failed, the House joined in unsuccessful federal litigation to invalidate Amendment 6 (governing congressional redistricting), Brown v. Sec’y of State of Fla., 668 F.3d 1271 (11th Cir. 2012), and the Legislature unsuccessfully tried to convince the U.S. Department of Justice to interpret the amendments so as to restore the Legislature’s prior discretion (Ex. CP-46.) To justify his campaign against the FairDistricts Amendments, former Speaker of the House Dean Cannon claimed that it was a “bad idea” to take discretion away from the “political branch” in redistricting. (T13:1621-22.) Rejecting the intent and language of the FairDistricts Amendments, Cannon claimed that voters should not “take the politics out of politics.” (T13:1621-22.) The Appearance of an Open and Transparent Public Process After the FairDistricts Amendments became law, the Legislature claimed its opposition was a thing of the past. (T4:398-99.) Cannon pledged that, in enacting Florida’s new maps after the 2010 census, the Legislature would conduct “the most open, transparent and publicly participatory reapportionment process in Florida’s history.” (Ex. CP-619 at 8.) The Legislature then purported to undertake what would normally be hallmarks of transparent decision-making. It held 26 public hearings across the state, solicited and received comments from members of the 7