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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The legal fight over Florida’s congressional map continues Tuesday with the federal trial over the new maps expected to wrap up this week. On Monday, lawyers representing voting rights organizations presented their case. Opponents of the current map argue it is both unconstitutional and discriminatory. What You Need To Know Testimony continues […]
TALLAHASSEE (AP) — On the same day Alabama Black voters scored a victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, a federal trial opened in Florida in which lawyers say Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the U.S. Constitution by deliberately dismantling a congressional district that favored Black candidates. It’s one of several lawsuits around the country that […]
Hansi Lo Wang, NPR: Well, now that map has been struck down, the court has appointed experts to come up with three proposals, three potential new maps, congressional maps for the state of Alabama. And those proposals are due later this month. And the judges will eventually review those maps. And the — all the […]
Alabama’s congressional map illegally hurts Black voters, U.S. court … The Union Leader Source link
Updated September 5, 2023 at 10:14 AM ET A panel of three federal judges has struck down Alabama’s latest map of congressional election districts for not following a court order to comply with the landmark Voting Rights Act. In an order released Tuesday, the judges said they are “deeply troubled that the State enacted a […]
A panel of federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest congressional map on Tuesday, ruling that a new map needed to be drawn because Republican lawmakers had failed to comply with orders to create a second majority-Black district or something “close to it.” In a sharp rebuke, the judges ordered that the new map be independently drawn, […]
Sept 5 (Reuters) – Alabama’s Republican-drawn congressional map illegally dilutes Black residents’ voting power, a panel of federal judges ruled on Tuesday. The map, which the Republican-controlled state legislature passed in July after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out lawmakers’ previous effort, again failed to create a second district in which Black voters would have […]
Background: The new map divided one district into four, each with a much smaller Black population. At issue in the ruling was an area previously mapped as House District 5, which stretched from Jacksonville to Tallahassee along Florida’s northern border with Georgia. The district, whose voting population was about 46 percent Black, had elected Al […]
State Sen. Kelli Stargel looks through redistricting maps during a Senate Committee on Reapportionment hearing on Jan. 13, 2022, in Tallahassee, Fla. A Florida redistricting plan pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution, a state judge ruled Saturday. Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP hide caption toggle caption Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP State Sen. Kelli Stargel looks […]
Background: The new map divided one district into four, each with a much smaller Black population. At issue in the ruling was an area previously mapped as House District 5, which stretched from Jacksonville to Tallahassee along Florida’s northern border with Georgia. The district, whose voting population was about 46 percent Black, had elected Al […]