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Judge K. Michael Moore says Miami needs to go back to the drawing board with its controversial new commission district maps, following an ACLU of Florida challenge.
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After the ACLU of Florida and local plaintiffs claimed Miami was guilty of "racial gerrymandering," a federal magistrate judge found "substantially evidence" of violations of the 14th Amendment — and recommends the city draw up a new map.
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A protracted legal fight over how city council districts were drawn in Jacksonville, Florida, reflects an aspect of redistricting that often remains in the shadows. Political map-drawing for congressional and state legislative seats captures wide attention after new census numbers are released every 10 years.
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Fair districts groups argue Florida's new congressional map violates the U.S. Constitution because it discriminates against Black voters.
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In cases from North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Republican state legislatures sought to block decisions issued by state supreme courts based on the states' respective constitutions.
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Florida’s new state legislative districts are now in place for the next decade after the state Supreme Court upheld on Thursday the state House and Senate maps.
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Florida lawmakers will follow a new set of rules when drawing the state’s legislative and congressional district maps. The changes are meant to prevent intentional partisan gerrymandering from happening this time around.
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Getting aid to Haiti post-earthquake. Florida’s congressional maps are about to be redrawn. Plus, a new TV series tells the unbelievable story of speedboat racers from Miami turned drug kingpins.
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In Georgia, students are showing up to public redistricting meetings and voicing their concerns about how politicians and mapmakers draw political lines in the future.
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David Daley, who wrote a book on Republican redistricting efforts earlier this decade, worries that the next round of map-making could be just as bad.
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The new swing vote on the court is the conservative chief justice; Trump's appointees are going different directions; and Justice Ginsburg appears to be handing off the liberal torch to Justice Kagan.
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The U.S. Supreme Court says partisan redistricting is a political question, not one that federal courts can weigh in on.