Congressional Redistricting

A panel of three federal judges will consider procedural issues in April in a lawsuit seeking a court-drawn congressional redistricting plan for Florida.

Florida is one of four states that hasn’t yet approved a congressional map — all other states have drawn their new U.S. House districts well ahead of the November 2022 elections. The legislature and the governor remain at odds over keeping an African American opportunity district in North Florida.

Voters and voting rights groups have filed two lawsuits seeking an injunction to prevent the state's current congressional map from remaining in effect and the implementation of a court-ordered map that's fair and constitutional.

With Gov. Ron DeSantis vowing to veto a congressional redistricting plan, a lawsuit filed late Friday asks a federal court to set new U.S. House districts that would be used in this fall’s elections.

The Florida House is ready to pass its proposed congressional districts after the GOP-controlled chamber on Thursday approved an amendment to the Senate plan.

The state's highest court has rejected DeSantis' request for an advisory opinion on the constitutionality of maintaining north Florida's only African American congressional district.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking the state Supreme Court to opine on whether eliminating north Florida's only Black congressional district would violate the state constitution, even though the legislature hasn't yet sent a U.S. House map to the governor for approval.

A small, historically Black city an hour east of Tallahassee is in the crosshairs of a controversial redistricting plan by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The plan would radically redraw the state’s 5th congressional district and could cost the Black Democrat who represents it his seat in Congress.

A bill aimed at clearing up confusion around redistricting court cases is ready for a vote on the Senate floor. But there are still concerns the plan…

A prolonged battle over district maps between Florida lawmakers and the state Supreme Court came to an end earlier this year. Now a South Florida…