Florida lawmakers approved this map as a backup plan in case their primary map failed a legal challenge. It preserved the former Congressional District 5. “He said it was required to break up ...

DeSantis' map carved up the former North Florida district — the 5th District — of Democratic Congressman Al Lawson into four Republican-leaning districts, contributing to Lawson's election ...

The map dismantles Florida’s 5th Congressional District, currently represented by Democrat Al Lawson, which connects Black communities from Tallahassee to Jacksonville. Instead, Jacksonville ...

Florida’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request for a hearing over the state’s controversial new congressional map that eliminates a majority Black district, putting an end—for now ...

That way, if they throw out DeSantis’ map, it should give enough ... allowed Black voters in North Florida a say in Congress in the old 5th Congressional District and its predecessors, a seat ...

He’s been the voice for African Americans in north Florida since he was elected to Congress in 2016. The Republican-led legislature redrew districts, but DeSantis vetoed those maps, calling them ...

A North Florida map that keeps the congressional district 5 in its current, Jacksonville-to-Tallahassee contours was proposed in court testimony by Harvard University political scientist and ...

The case centers on North Florida’s Congressional District 5, which in the past elected Black Democrat ... With a candidate-qualifying period held last week for congressional races, the disputed map ...

But Florida’s Democratic leaders ... You’re fighting reduction of Black districts and congressional maps. It’s a fight. It’s a fight. It’s a fight.” Powell blames a confluence of ...

A Florida appeals court on Friday upheld the state’s congressional map advocated by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which was enacted after the 2020 census and dismantled a Black-majority district in the ...

Under the ruling, Florida is forbidden to use the map in the 2024 election ... At issue in the ruling was an area previously mapped as House District 5, which stretched from Jacksonville to ...

A revised map of proposed congressional districts that the Florida Senate will consider today would make sensible improvements in the Tampa Bay area and across the west coast. The changes would ...