In their lawsuit, the voting rights groups claimed the redrawn congressional map violated state and federal voting rights protections for Black voters. Florida's population of 22.2 million is 17% ...

In 2015, the Florida Supreme Court enforced the state's Fair Districts Amendments when striking down the legislature's map and ordering lawmakers to adopt the former 5th Congressional District ...

The old map straddled the 5th District along a roughly 150-mile stretch of Florida’s border with Georgia, a minority-majority area where Black residents make up more than 40% of the population.

A Florida appeals court on Friday upheld the state’s congressional map advocated by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which was enacted after the 2020 census and dismantled a Black-majority district in the ...

In 2015, the Florida Supreme Court enforced the state's Fair Districts Amendments when striking down the legislature's map and ordering lawmakers to adopt the former 5th Congressional District ...

A federal trial over Florida’s congressional map could wrap up this week after attorneys for civil rights groups and voters suing over North Florida’s districts rested their case on Monday.

Florida lawmakers gave final approval on Thursday to new congressional boundaries for the next decade, adopting a map put forward by Gov. Ron DeSantis office that controversially eliminated two ...