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Florida’s highest court will weigh in on the constitutionality of the state's congressional map, but any changes likely wouldn't come in time for the 2024 elections.
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Voting-rights groups and others asked the court to take up the case, which centers on a North Florida district that in the past elected Black Democratic Congressman Al Lawson.
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Saying a congressional redistricting plan approved last year by lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis abolished a “race-based electoral monopoly,” attorneys for the state late Wednesday argued that an appeals court should overturn a circuit judge’s ruling that the plan violates the Florida Constitution.
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The trial begins Tuesday morning. Several civil rights groups and voters are challenging the map. They argue that it intentionally discriminates against Black voters.
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Seeking a final ruling before the legislative session starts in January, both sides in a battle over a congressional redistricting plan asked an appeals court Friday to fast-track the case to the Florida Supreme Court.
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A state judge has struck down Florida’s congressional map after finding that the removal of an African American-performing district was unconstitutional.
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The state and plaintiffs in a redistricting lawsuit are heading to a Tallahassee courtroom next week. The hearing comes after the state admitted in filings that Black voters no longer have the ability to elect a candidate of their choice in a key, North Florida congressional district.
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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.
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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.
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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.