Florida Legislature To Keep Map Changes Simple
Florida Legislators returning to the state Capitol are facing the task of redrawing the state's 27 congressional districts.
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Florida Legislators returning to the state Capitol are facing the task of redrawing the state's 27 congressional districts.
Florida legislators will return to Tallahassee to adopt a new congressional map.
With an impending elections coming, a question looms of when to redraw congressional districts ruled unconstitutional by a judge.
A Florida judge is holding a hearing Thursday to decide when the state's congressional districts will be redrawn.
It will be virtually impossible for lawmakers to redraw two congressional districts deemed unconstitutional by a Tallahassee judge before the Nov. 4 general election, lawyers for the Department of State, the Legislature and county elections supervisors argued in court Thursday.
Republican legislative leaders said Tuesday they do not plan to appeal a judge's ruling that struck down Florida's congressional map but want lawmakers to be able to redraw the disputed districts after this fall's elections.
One day after a landmark legal ruling, some people are question whether the change to Florida's political landscape will have an impact on other states' drawing their congressional districts.
A highly unusual statement came out of the 1st District Court of Appeal Thursday on the drawing on new political maps.
A coalition of voting-rights groups failed to prove during a recent trial that congressional districts drawn by lawmakers in 2012 violated constitutional standards for redistricting, according to a filing by attorneys for the Legislature.
A trial which challenges whether Florida legislators followed the law when drawing up new political maps for congress is expected to come to an end this week.
A Republican consultant trying to keep hundreds of pages of redistricting-related documents secret is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the release of the records in the latest twist in a legal battle over Florida's congressional districts.
Overturning an appellate court ruling, the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a Tallahassee judge to allow a GOP consultant's documents to be considered in a trial about the Legislature's 2012 redistricting effort, a move one justice called "unprecedented."
An aide to former House Speaker Dean Cannon admitted Tuesday that he made a mistake by secretly feeding redistricting plans to a Republican political consultant in 2012, but denied that the arrangement tainted the redrawing of the state's congressional districts.
Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford is expected to testify Tuesday in a high stakes trial which could decide the future of of the state's congressional districts.
Should legislators who draw up the districts that will help keep them in office be forced to testify about how they came up with the district?
The Republican-led state Legislature wants a legal challenge to redistricting map of the Florida Senate thrown out.
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The Florida Senate is breathing a collective sigh of relief Friday morning, after learning the Florida Supreme Court signed off on the Senate's revised re-districting plan. That means all Fl0rida Senate districts are now official, and candidates can file to run within them.
After months of debate, the Florida Supreme Court once again took up legislative redistricting Friday.
A redrawn Florida Senate re-districting map is being sent to the state's highest court.
After a debate that lasted barely an hour, the Florida House approved a new Senate redistricting plan over the objection of minority Democrats, who argued the play was little better than a plan rejected by the Florida Supreme Court.
With the new Senate maps expected to easily pass the House next week, before the March 30th end of the special session, lawmakers in the upper chamber and potential candidates for those seats are beginning to evaluate their electoral futures. A number of South Florida Senators could be affected.
The well-organized Senate redistricting process that produced a bipartisan vote for the first draft of the chamber's map now appears to be fraying, with Republican infighting prompting the majority to delay a committee vote on the plan that was scheduled for Tuesday.
Drier air starts to arrive in South Florida on Friday and continues to move in for the weekend. Rain chances will also drop significantly.
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The investigation took place in the Camden Portofino community, according to the Pembroke Pines Police Department.
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Drier air starts to arrive in South Florida on Friday and continues to move in for the weekend. Rain chances will also drop significantly.
Rashaud Jay Dixon, 16, was reported missing on Wednesday night.
The investigation took place in the Camden Portofino community, according to the Pembroke Pines Police Department.
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