{"id":284,"date":"2024-03-24T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T17:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/florida\/work\/common-cause-florida-v-byrd\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:02:20","slug":"common-cause-florida-v-byrd","status":"publish","type":"work","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/florida\/vi\/work\/nguyen-nhan-chung-florida-v-byrd\/","title":{"rendered":"Nguy\u00ean nh\u00e2n chung Florida v. Byrd"},"template":"","class_list":["post-284","work","type-work","status-publish","hentry","work_type-litigation"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Common Cause and partners are challenging a discriminatory congressional voting map enacted in Florida. ","featured_image":"","work_type":175,"related_issues":[62,402],"location":12},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"T\u1ed5 ch\u1ee9c Common Cause Florida, Fair Districts Now, H\u1ed9i ngh\u1ecb Bang Florida c\u1ee7a NAACP, v\u00e0 c\u00e1c c\u1eed tri c\u00e1 nh\u00e2n tr\u00ean kh\u1eafp Florida \u0111\u00e3 \u0111\u1ec7 \u0111\u01a1n ki\u1ec7n l\u00ean t\u00f2a \u00e1n li\u00ean bang, c\u00e1o bu\u1ed9c C\u01a1 quan L\u1eadp ph\u00e1p Florida v\u00e0 Th\u1ed1ng \u0111\u1ed1c DeSantis \u0111\u00e3 c\u1ed1 \u00fd ph\u00e2n bi\u1ec7t ch\u1ee7ng t\u1ed9c, vi ph\u1ea1m Tu ch\u00ednh \u00e1n th\u1ee9 14 v\u00e0 15 c\u1ee7a Hi\u1ebfn ph\u00e1p Hoa K\u1ef3 trong vi\u1ec7c x\u00e2y d\u1ef1ng b\u1ea3n \u0111\u1ed3 qu\u1ed1c h\u1ed9i hi\u1ec7n t\u1ea1i c\u1ee7a ti\u1ec3u bang. Phi\u00ean t\u00f2a k\u00e9o d\u00e0i hai tu\u1ea7n trong v\u1ee5 \u00e1n n\u00e0y b\u1eaft \u0111\u1ea7u v\u00e0o ng\u00e0y 26 th\u00e1ng 9 n\u0103m 2023 t\u1ea1i Tallahassee v\u00e0 k\u1ebft th\u00fac v\u00e0o ng\u00e0y 3 th\u00e1ng 10 n\u0103m 2023. H\u1ed9i \u0111\u1ed3ng x\u00e9t x\u1eed g\u1ed3m ba th\u1ea9m ph\u00e1n \u0111\u00e3 ra ph\u00e1n quy\u1ebft v\u00e0o ng\u00e0y 27 th\u00e1ng 3 n\u0103m 2024 r\u1eb1ng duy tr\u00ec b\u1ea3n \u0111\u1ed3 qu\u1ed1c h\u1ed9i ph\u00e2n bi\u1ec7t \u0111\u1ed1i x\u1eed c\u1ee7a ti\u1ec3u bang<\/a>. Tr\u01b0\u1eddng h\u1ee3p n\u00e0y tr\u01b0\u1edbc \u0111\u00e2y \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c g\u1ecdi l\u00e0\u00a0Nguy\u00ean nh\u00e2n chung Florida ki\u1ec7n Lee.\u00a0<\/i>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"T\u00ecm hi\u1ec3u v\u1ec1 c\u00e1c nguy\u00ean \u0111\u01a1n c\u00e1 nh\u00e2n c\u1ee7a ch\u00fang t\u00f4i<\/a> Xem C\u1eadp nh\u1eadt tr\u1ef1c ti\u1ebfp t\u1eeb Phi\u00ean t\u00f2a<\/a>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

Case Updates<\/h3>\r\nMarch 27, 2024:<\/strong> The three-judge panel released a decision in the case, upholding the state's discriminatory congressional map. See our statement here<\/a>. Find the decision here<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOctober 3, 2023:<\/strong> The trial in this case concluded in Tallahassee.\r\n\r\nSeptember 26, 2023:<\/strong> The trial in this case began in Tallahassee. Get updates from the trial here<\/a>. Read our release here<\/a>.\r\n\r\nAugust 18, 2023:\u00a0<\/b>The court denied the defendants' motion for partial summary judgment, finding that the plaintiffs have standing to bring this challenge against Florida's congressional map. The case moves to trial on September 26, 2023.\u00a0Read our release here<\/a>.\r\n\r\nFebruary 7, 2023:<\/strong> Plaintiffs Common Cause FL, Fair Districts Now, the Florida State Conference of the NAACP, and current individual plaintiffs were joined by additional individual plaintiffs in filing a\u00a0second amended complaint<\/a> alleging that the Governor and Legislature engaged in intentional discrimination in congressional redistricting. The second amended complaint makes clear that line drawing by Governor DeSantis and the state legislature engaged in racial discrimination to form congressional districts, and that any argument that race was not considered is pretextual.\u00a0Read the complaint here.<\/a>\r\n\r\nNovember 8, 2022:<\/strong> The three-judge panel denied Defendants\u2019 motion to dismiss our complaint, which argues that Florida\u2019s current congressional maps were created as a product of intentional racial discrimination in violation of the 14th<\/sup>\u00a0and 15th<\/sup>\u00a0Amendments. The court is satisfied that we have presented the factual allegations on \u201call of [the] signposts\u201d necessary to support our arguments. This case now moves forward to discovery and eventual trial.\u00a0Read our release here.<\/a>\r\n\r\nMay 11, 2022:\u00a0<\/strong>The three-judge panel granted Plaintiffs' motion to amend the complaint. The Amended Complaint argues that Governor DeSantis and the Florida Legislature engaged in intentional discrimination in violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments.\u00a0 Read the release here.<\/a>\r\n\r\nApril 29, 2022<\/strong>: Plaintiffs Common Cause FL, Fair Districts Now, individual plaintiffs were joined by Florida State Conference of the NAACP in filing an amended complaint arguing<\/a> that Governor DeSantis and the Florida Legislature engaged in intentional discrimination in violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments. The amended complaint lays out the history of racial discrimination in Florida and specific discriminatory actions that Governor DeSantis and the Florida legislature took in crafting the new congressional map, including Governor DeSantis's comments around CD5, an historically Black district in northern Florida.\r\n\r\nApril 25, 2022<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>The Court issued an Order to Show Cause that requires Plaintiffs to file a response as to why the case shouldn't be dismissed for mootness.\r\n\r\nApril 22, 2022: <\/strong>After Governor DeSantis signed a new congressional map into law, Defendant Secretary of State Lee filed a motion to dismiss the case as moot<\/a>.\r\n\r\nApril 18, 2022: <\/strong>\u00a0Plaintiffs filed their proposed congressional district plan<\/a> and brief<\/a>, based on Senate Map 8060, which complies with all redistricting requirements under federal and state law, including the Florida Fair Districts Amendment. Plaintiffs also filed an expert analysis<\/a> of the map which also finds that the proposed plan does not favor or disfavor any political party or incumbent and does not diminish the right of minority voters to elect their candidates of choice.\r\n\r\nApril 6, 2022:\u00a0<\/strong>Judge Winsor denied Plaintiff's motion to recuse<\/a> and granted the motion to intervene by a group of individual Florida voters represented by the Elias Law Group.\r\n\r\nMarch 25, 2022:<\/strong> Plaintiffs filed a motion requesting that Judge Winsor recuse himself from the case given his extensive advocacy and litigation efforts on behalf of the Florida House of Representatives during Florida\u2019s last redistricting cycle. Read the motion and brief here.<\/a>\r\n\r\nMarch 11, 2022<\/b>: Following the initial failure of the Florida Legislature and Governor Ron DeSantis to agree upon a congressional map, Common Cause Florida, Fair Districts Now, and a group of individual plaintiffs from across Florida filed a federal lawsuit in the Northern District of Florida. Plaintiffs asked the federal court to step in to ensure that Florida voters could vote in congressional districts of equal population based on 2020 Census data as required by the US Constitution. Read the complaint here<\/a>.\r\n\r\nFebruary 1, 2022<\/b>: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis requested an advisory opinion from the Florida Supreme Court on whether he would be required to veto certain configurations of congressional district 5. Common Cause Florida and Fair Districts Now filed a response to the Governor\u2019s request arguing that the Florida Supreme Court should not take jurisdiction because there was no final map for the Court to review and any decision from the court would be impermissible intervention in the legislative process. Read our brief here.<\/a> The Supreme Court declined to take jurisdiction over the advisory opinion, leaving the question of the constitutionality of congressional district 5 for another day. Read the Florida Supreme Court opinion here.<\/a>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

T\u00e0i li\u1ec7u tr\u01b0\u1eddng h\u1ee3p \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c ch\u1ecdn<\/h3>\r\n