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The decision means Florida's current congressional districts that give Republicans a 20-8 advantage over Democrats will remain in place for the 2026 midterm elections and beyond.
A majority opinion written by Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz accepted DeSantis’ past arguments that the Equal Protection Clause in the U.S. Constitution overrides a demand in Florida’s Fair Districts language that the power of minority voters cannot be diminished in the redistricting process.
Florida’s congressional districts will stand, after the Florida Supreme Court upheld the maps, rejecting a challenge over a Black district.
The case centered on Congressional District 5, which in the past stretched from Jacksonville to west of Tallahassee, and elected Black Democrat Al Lawson. During the 2022 redistricting process, DeSantis argued that keeping such a district would be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and successfully pressured lawmakers to overhaul the district.
DeSantis, in a social media post, said that "this was always the constitutionally correct map — and now both the federal courts and the FL Supreme Court have upheld it."
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A massive Florida energy policy overhaul promising big savings to corporations for solar investment and imposing mandatory bills on vacation homes received the blessing of the Florida Supreme Court Thursday.
In their brief, Florida's lawyers acknowledged that the case involves adults and minors but said that "doesn't matter."
The Florida Supreme Court upheld on Thursday the state’s congressional map championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which reconfigured a district in North Florida, erasing Black representation in that area of the state,
The Florida Supreme Court ruled in a case Democrats hoped could have given them an additional seat ahead of the midterms.