NPR: How Florida’s congressional map could change before the 2024 elections

08.24.2023 / By Valerie Crowder
NPR: How Florida's congressional map could change before the 2024 elections

Regardless of how the state court rules, plaintiffs in an ongoing federal lawsuit plan to proceed with their case, explained Kathay Feng, an attorney and vice president of programs for Common Cause Florida, one of the groups challenging the map. "If they come to a final remedy that is very narrowly focused, there is still an opportunity for the federal case to examine the entire state map as a whole," Feng said. Although plaintiffs suing in state court have agreed to skip a trial, that's not expected to happen in the federal case, Feng said: "We are fully prepared to go to trial in September."

Regardless of how the state court rules, plaintiffs in an ongoing federal lawsuit plan to proceed with their case, explained Kathay Feng, an attorney and vice president of programs for Common Cause Florida, one of the groups challenging the map.

“If they come to a final remedy that is very narrowly focused, there is still an opportunity for the federal case to examine the entire state map as a whole,” Feng said.

Although plaintiffs suing in state court have agreed to skip a trial, that’s not expected to happen in the federal case, Feng said: “We are fully prepared to go to trial in September.”

 

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