The First District Court of Appeals upheld Florida’s congressional map after a prior court struck it down over concerns about violating racial representation requirements as outlined in Florida law.
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It said that the prior decision striking down the new map falsely placed “a racial segregation mandate” into Florida’s constitution.
In the prior ruling, Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh declared the map reduces the ability of Black voters to pick a representative of their choice in North Florida.
In Friday’s ruling, the court ruled that the prior decision ran contradictory to the Florida Constitution.
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