Voting Rights Groups Urge Florida Supreme Court To Suspend New Congressional Map

Voting rights groups this week are pressing the Florida Supreme Court to put the state’s newly drawn congressional map on hold until court proceedings on the map’s legality play out.

The Equal Ground Education Fund and other organizations filed a petition for an expedited decision on the redistricting issue last week. But in a reply filed on Monday , the state Attorney General’s Office argued that the new map does not represent a partisan gerrymander in violation of the Fair Districts Amendment (FDA) to the state constitution.

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