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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.
Florida legislature has announced they will wait on Gov. Ron DeSantis' congressional map rather ... DeSantis previously submitted a map that would dismantle the districts of two Black U.S ...
That map will focus primarily on the two districts flagged by the judge: A sprawling district that runs from Jacksonville to Orlando held by U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown and a central Florida district ...
Florida Florida Senate passes DeSantis congressional map wiping out Dem gains from redistricting The proposal creates 20 seats that favor Republican candidates, while eight districts would lean ...
That map provided the GOP with an additional two seats but met with opposition from Mr. DeSantis, who said the legislature’s proposal ran afoul of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause ...
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 ...
With the failure of the Legislature to produce new maps, the job of shaping Florida's 27 congressional districts now falls to state Judge Terry Lewis, who has ordered hearings in September.
In 2015, the Florida Supreme Court enforced the state's Fair Districts Amendments when striking down the legislature's map and ordering lawmakers to adopt the former 5th Congressional District ...
Mr. DeSantis’s map-drawer, Alex Kelly, said at a Florida Senate committee hearing on Tuesday that he could not draw a compact majority-Black district based in Jacksonville.
TALLAHASSEE — Florida legislators completed their hasty fix of a congressional redistricting map Monday, sending the plan on to Gov. Rick Scott for approval as they scramble to meet Friday's ...
TALLAHASSEE In a highly anticipated ruling, a Leon County judge struck down a map of the state's congressional districts drawn by the Legislature in 2012, potentially throwing the political future ...
The Florida Legislature’s new approach on drawing congressional maps is, if at first you don’t succeed, don’t try again. Skip to content NOWCAST WPBF 25 News at 6 p.m.