voting rights

Focusing on a North Florida district that has become a legal and political battleground, voting-rights groups and other plaintiffs are seeking a temporary injunction to block a congressional redistricting plan pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Florida lawmakers on Wednesday passed a voting law package that would create a police force dedicated to pursuing election crimes, a proposal pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Florida House and Senate Republicans could be ready to pass an elections plan that includes creating a new state office to investigate voting irregularities, boosting penalties for wrongdoing, and looking at changes in the vote-by-mail system.

The Supreme Court has been dismantling key provisions of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. The justices have taken another case on the issue next term.

Florida Democratic lawmakers railed against GOP-led efforts to make voting harder outside the old State Capitol building on Thursday.

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Gov. Ron DeSantis' proposed congressional map would eliminate two of the state's African-American congressional districts. Voting rights advocates say the map would dilute minority voting power in the state.

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker compared the university's actions to those who capitulate in Hong Kong to the repressive policies of China's government.

The push to alter the filibuster and sidestep a Republican blockade of two voting rights bills was doomed by Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

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The president's remarks were among his most forceful denunciations of voter suppression legislation introduced in a number of GOP-controlled regions as well as for changing the Senate filibuster.

The university's report follows an outcry about the school blocking professors from testifying in a challenge to a controversial elections law.