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City Council President Terrance Freeman said City Council will pass a new map by Nov. 4, four days before the court’s deadline — while still appealing the court ruling.
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At the same time, City Council has decided to start creating new maps to comply with a court order that found the city's redistricting unconstitutional.
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Jacksonville's leaders met in private Friday to discuss their next move after a federal court struck down the city’s new voting maps as racial gerrymandering.
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U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard found that City Council diluted Black voting power by packing Black voters into four districts.
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Sens. Aaron Bean and Jennifer Bradley say "legislative privilege" protects them from giving depositions in a lawsuit over the redistricting plan.
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After pushing a congressional redistricting plan through the Legislature this spring, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is fighting to prevent the release of documents to plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the plan.
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Lawson, a Democrat, insists he can pull off a win in a Republican-leaning district on Nov. 8.
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U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard didn’t say which way she was going to rule, but she plans to file a written order that either strikes down or preserves the Jacksonville City Council and Duval School Board districts that plaintiffs say were racially gerrymandered.
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A coalition of local activists and voting rights groups contend that City Council diluted the influence of Black residents by packing a majority into four of the city's 14 districts.
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The groups say Jacksonville City Council's redistricting plans should be overturned before the 2023 election because the new maps disenfranchise Black voters.