{"id":250,"date":"2023-12-01T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T22:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/florida\/press-releases\/florida-court-shirks-responsibility-to-halt-unfair-voting-map\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:26:17","slug":"florida-court-shirks-responsibility-to-halt-unfair-voting-map","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/florida\/press\/florida-court-shirks-responsibility-to-halt-unfair-voting-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Court Shirks Responsibility to Halt Unfair Voting Map"},"template":"","class_list":["post-250","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"\u201cThis decision blatantly ignores the will of Florida voters who\u2014more than a decade ago\u2014demanded Fair Districts that protect representation for communities of color.\"","featured_image":"","press_type":149,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7806}"],"related_issues":[62,402],"related_work":[165,171],"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":"Tallahassee, FL \u2014<\/span><\/b> T<\/span>his afternoon<\/span>, <\/span>Florida\u2019s First District Court of Appeal <\/span><\/span>reversed a lower court\u2019s decision<\/span><\/span><\/a> and allowed the <\/span>congressional map<\/span> that the <\/span>DeSantis Administration<\/span> pushed through the legislature in 2022<\/span> to stand<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n

Statement of Amy Keith, Common Cause Florida Executive Director<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\r\n\u201cThis decision blatantly ignores the will of Florida voters who\u2014more than a decade ago\u2014demanded Fair Districts that protect representation for communities of color. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe Fair Districts Amendments were designed to stop the kind of gerrymandering the court has green lighted today. The decision goes against the will of the voters of Florida and their right to fair maps.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nWe are deeply disappointed by today\u2019s state court decision, and we want Florida voters to know there is still hope for a fair congressional map that protects the rights of Black voters. Common Cause and our partners took the DeSantis Administration to federal court to hold them accountable for intentionally drawing discriminatory maps in<\/span> Common Cause Florida v. Byrd <\/span><\/i>and we are still waiting for a decision.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nOur work is not done until all voters can exercise their right to fair representation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n

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