Florida appeals court sides with DeSantis, reverses ruling on congressional map A circuit court judge back in August said the map violated Florida’s constitution and ordered that legislators ...

Florida Supreme Court heard arguments in what could be last ditch bid by voter rights organizations to overturn congressional map favoring GOP.

Redrawn Congressional districts proposed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in April, 2022. By Jim Saunders ©2023 The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — An appeals court Tuesday took up a battle about ...

Black voters in Florida could regain a congressional district where they make up a sizable share of the population, if voting rights groups prevail in an ongoing legal battle.

A large panel of judges in Florida's First District Court of Appeal considered Tuesday whether to overturn a lower decision from last month, ordering a redraw of Florida's current map.

The Supreme Court has refused to allow Florida to enforce an immigration law making it a crime for people who are living in ...

Several voting rights groups and voters are suing in state court to have a reliably African American-performing district reinstated in North Florida, arguing that the current map violates the ...

A Florida appeals court on Friday upheld the state's congressional map backed by Governor Ron DeSantis that a lower court had ruled violated the state constitution by diminishing some Black ...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Alabama’s congressional districts map could have implications for Florida’s ongoing battle over Gov. Ron DeSantis ’ 2022 redistricting plan. The ...

Supreme Court rejects Florida's bid to enforce law barring undocumented immigrants, keeping a lower court's block in place with no opinion or noted dissents.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A three-judge federal appellate panel unanimously upheld Florida's 2022 congressional redistricting maps, and in particular, Congressional District 5, which spans over 200 ...

The new map re-drew a north Florida district so that it no longer includes a majority of Black voters. Stetson University College of Law professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy thinks a recent decision by ...