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 ...

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, preserving ...

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

Several voting rights groups plan to head to court Wednesday morning in an attempt to block Florida’s new congressional district map, which was drawn up by Gov. Ron DeSantis. That map was passed ...

Ron DeSantis violated the U.S. Constitution by deliberately dismantling a congressional ... year debated a map that would have kept a Black performing district in North Florida, DeSantis used ...

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 ...

A Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution and is prohibited from being used for any future U.S. congressional elections since it ...

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 ...

AS IS IT WAS A RACIAL GERRYMANDERING AND THAT MAP ... DISTRICT AND LOST. AND REPUBLICAN FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS, WHO REDREW THE MAPS, SUCCEEDED IN ADDING REPUBLICAN SEATS IN CONGRESS AFTER ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - Congressional districts in north Florida could be redrawn before the next election. Voting rights groups and the state reached an agreement ...

contending the new map violates the Fair Districts Amendments in the state constitution by moving the 5th congressional district out of north Florida. The district, which straddles about 150 miles ...