DeSantis' Resdistricting plan goes to Supreme Court

DeSantis' congressional redistricting plan is going before the Florida Supreme Court

In a main opinion and three concurring opinions, the 1st District Court of Appeal by an 8-2 margin rejected a Leon County circuit judge’s ruling that the redistricting plan violated a 2010 state constitutional amendment that set standards for redistricting.

A state appeals court Friday upheld a congressional redistricting plan that Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed through the Legislature, rejecting arguments that it unconstitutionally diminished the rights of Black voters to elect a candidate of their choice.

DeSantis won in the Appellate Court but it will now go on to the Supreme Court.

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