Congressional Redistricting

As they defend a congressional redistricting plan, a judge says the Florida House and Senate can challenge part of the 2010 Fair Districts constitutional amendment.

The redistricting plan, which Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed through the Florida Legislature during a special session last April, was used in the elections amid constitutional challenges in federal and state courts.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has publicly claimed that Florida’s heavily Republican congressional map was not drawn with partisan intent — but that doesn’t line up with the findings of a ProPublica investigation published this week.

Six lawmakers and legislative staff members have asked a judge for a protective order that would shield them from testifying in a lawsuit about the constitutionality of a new congressional redistricting plan.

A Leon County circuit judge has ruled that top Florida lawmakers should not be defendants in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a congressional redistricting plan.

Lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration want a federal court to toss out a challenge to a new congressional redistricting plan — or put the lawsuit on hold while other redistricting cases are resolved.

A three-judge panel has revived Gov. Ron DeSantis' congressional map after a state circuit court judge ruled earlier this month that the map was unconstitutional.

Florida is among a half dozen states where the population was undercounted during the 2020 census, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The state has asked an appeals court to reinstate a stay on a circuit judge’s ruling that blocked a congressional redistricting plan pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. An emergency motion argues that a Leon County circuit judge erred last week when he issued a temporary injunction against the plan — and when he lifted a stay on the ruling Monday.

Pointing to “urgency” as the 2022 elections near, attorneys for voting-rights groups want a battle over a new congressional redistricting plan be put on a fast track to the Florida Supreme Court.