Fla. Court Holds Testy Hearing On Secret Evidence

By GARY FINEOUT, Associated Press, San Antonio Express-News: World
Fri, 09/19/2014 - 2:30pm

(AP) — A bitter dispute pitting Republican political consultants against groups who challenged Florida's congressional map spilled out in front of the state's highest court on Friday. The documents belong to employees of a Gainesville-based GOP political consulting firm who were not directly named in the lawsuit that challenged Florida's 27 congressional districts. [...] the groups that sued, which included the League of Women Voters of Florida, contend the documents proved that the consultants worked in concert with Republican legislators to violate the state's Fair Districts amendments. Justices, who have no timetable to rule on the evidence dispute, held an hour-long hearing during which attorney Kent Safriet argued that his clients have First Amendment rights that allow them to keep their political activities private. Pat Bainter, president and owner of Data Targeting, went even further in a statement, calling the ongoing tussle over the evidence "the culmination of a legal assault and press sensationalism as to whether or not I, a private citizen, have the right to petition my government without fear of a political inquisition into my private matters."

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