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The court leaves in place a lower-court decision that would clear the way for using a controversial plan that Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed through the Legislature.
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A controversial redistricting plan that Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed through the Legislature is likely to be used in this year’s elections.
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Voting-rights groups went to the state Supreme Court on Monday as they try to keep alive the possibility of blocking a congressional redistricting plan that would make it harder to elect a Black U.S. House member this year in North Florida.
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The judge ordered election officials to begin using a map that preserves a Black congressional district in North Florida.
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The state is appealing a judge's decision that a new congressional map reduces Black voting power. The appeal automatically places the ruling on hold.
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Circuit Judge J. Layne Smith ordered the state to adopt a map that maintains an east-to-west version of Jacksonville’s 5th Congressional District, stretching from Duval to Gadsden counties. Gov. Ron DeSantis had called that idea racial gerrymandering.
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The redrawn district favors a Republican, but the Democrat Hill said he can win by appealing to working families.
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Civil rights groups allege that the map approved by City Council reduces Black voting power by illegally packing those residents into a few districts.
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Alleging that the map is “intentionally racially discriminatory,” voting-rights groups have requested approval to revamp a federal lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of Florida’s new congressional redistricting plan.
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A Leon County circuit judge will hear arguments May 11 on a request to block a congressional redistricting plan that could affect minority representation in North Florida.