In re Senate Joint Resolution of Legislative Apportionment 2-B

In this second phase of Florida’s decennial legislative apportionment process, the Court’s constitutional obligation is to determine the validity of the apportionment plan set forth in Senate Joint Resolution 2-B (SJR 2-B). In that joint resolution, the Legislature adopted a revised plan apportioning Florida’s Senate districts after this Court declared the original Senate *877apportionment plan to be constitutionally invalid. See In re Senate Joint Resolution of Legislative Apportionment 1176 (In re Apportionment Law — March 2012), 83 So.3d 597 (Fla.2012).

The declaratory judgment this Court…