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The Florida Supreme Court upheld on Thursday the state’s congressional map championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which ...
Impermissible Racial Gerrymandering and Lack of Alternative Maps The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state's ...
Florida’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state’s current congressional redistricting map, rejecting a challenge over ...
Florida’s political landscape has been redrawn. Every 10 years, after the Census, lawmakers redraw the maps for Florida’s Senate and House and for its U.S. congressional delegation.
A Florida appeals court on Friday ruled the state can move forward with redistricting plans backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) that dismantle a largely Black district in north Florida, reversing an ...
Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday vetoed the proposed Congressional maps sent by the GOP-led legislature, as part of his push for a more aggressive Republican gerrymander and ...
Bracy — the son of the Rev. Dr. Randolph Bracy Jr., who founded New Covenant Baptist Church in Orlando — is a former state senator who represented Florida Senate District 15 from 2016 to 2022 ...
A state judge in September ruled that the map redrawn in 2020 illegally shredded the 5th Congressional District, which had been a strongly Black district in north Florida. Sign up here.
The shape of Florida's 5th District, which is represented by Democratic Congressman Al Lawson and has had a Black representative since 1993, is unrecognizable in the new map.
Voting groups, state agree to focus solely on Florida District 5 in congressional map lawsuit ... Published: Aug. 15, 2023 at 6:26 PM EDT | Updated: Aug. 15, 2023 at 9:07 PM EDT ...
Florida’s congressional districts will stand, after the Florida Supreme Court upheld the maps, rejecting a challenge over a ...
The old map straddled the 5th District along a roughly 150-mile stretch of Florida’s border with Georgia, a minority-majority area where Black residents make up more than 40% of the population.