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DeSantis’ Office drew Florida’s congressional map, one approved by lawmakers after DeSantis vetoed a map produced by the ...
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/AP) — Florida Legislators returning to the state Capitol are facing the task of redrawing the state's 27 congressional districts.
Court battles forced lawmakers to redraw state Senate and congressional maps after the 2012 round of redistricting. Voters in 2010 passed what are known as the Fair Districts constitutional ...
A federal trial over Florida’s congressional map could wrap up this week after attorneys for civil rights groups and voters suing over North Florida’s districts rested their case on Monday.
Every 10 years, after the census, all states are required to draw new congressional and legislative district maps. Under the law now in Florida, maps must be drawn without regard to politics. But ...
A ruling is expected before the end of the year so that if DeSantis’ map is tossed, the Legislature would have time to enact a new one before the 2024 elections.
But Florida's First District Court of Appeals said in its ruling that the lower court's decision to order the Florida legislature to redraw the map was based on a misinterpretation of the state ...
BUT WHEN GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS VETOED THE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT MAP DRAWN BY REPUBLICAN LAWMAKER, ... focuses on the reconfiguration of north Florida congressional districts before last year’s ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis racially discriminated against Black voters by endorsing a congressional map that scattered them across four North Florida districts won by white ...
— It took the Florida legislature one second to do what decades of court ... But under the new map, District 5 is now broken up into four districts and drawn in such a way that the Black vote is ...
In the new map approved by the Florida Legislature and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis before last year’s midterm elections, that area was divided into four districts whose voting populations ranged ...
In Northeast Florida, the boundary changes meant that Jacksonville neighborhoods once represented by Lawson became part of Congressional District 4, which also covers Clay and Nassau counties and ...