Bill by Sen. Jennifer Bradley, transferring some offices from DOE to the Agency for Persons with Disabilities and elevating it to independent status – violating the Constitution’s 25-department limit: flsenate.gov/Session/Bill...
Will the FL Legislature finally have the courage to create the forbidden 26th department?
Also comes after a lame-duck commissioner in Holcomb’s home county tried to transfer the local animal control agency to her ally, the sheriff.
The bill: flsenate.gov/Session/Bill...
Rep. Jeff Holcomb has a bill to shorten the lame-duck period for county officers, and restrict spending in the last 3 months of their term.
Comes after DeSantis-appointed Orange County elections supervisor spent over half his office budget in the last 3 months of his term.
BREAKING: A three-judge federal panel in Miami has unanimously rejected the State of Florida’s attempt to dismiss a landmark lawsuit challenging the legality of congressional and state House districts in South and Southwest Florida.
We’ll be monitoring the city’s new redistricting process to ensure they listen to the community and follow the law.
With trial looming in April, Daytona Beach has decided to repeal the gerrymandered map we challenged under a new state law, and our lawsuit comes to a successful close.
www.aclufl.org/en/press-rel...
Ron DeSantis waited just nine days to call a special election after Matt Gaetz resigned. But it's been more than *six weeks* and he still hasn't called specials for two vacant legislative seats, so the @aclufl.bsky.social and @nlvwarren.bsky.social are suing—yet again
BREAKING: We’re suing on behalf of Santa Rosa and Brevard County voters to compel Gov. DeSantis to fulfill his constitutional obligation to call special elections for the vacant Florida State House District 3 and Senate District 19 seats.
Why hasn’t DeSantis set the SD19 & HD3 special elx yet? Fine & Rudman resigned 4 weeks ago to run for Congress.
Resign-to-run is designed to allow for consolidating the cascading specials; now it’s too late.
Our case is the first in the state to enforce the new ban on redistricting to favor incumbents based on their home addresses.
Read the complaint in Sakhnovsky v. Daytona Beach: www.aclufl.org/sites/defaul...
Daytona Beach commissioners drew their map with one overriding goal: protecting incumbents.
That violates Florida law, so we’re suing. www.aclufl.org/en/press-rel...
The question of whether the FL Supreme Court should take up the congressional redistricting case is now fully briefed. It takes 4 (of 7) justices to grant review.
The DeSantis administration makes the same argument in its own jurisdictional brief at the FL Supreme Court. acis.flcourts.gov/portal/court...
The 1st DCA ruling rewriting FL’s Fair Districts standards could jeopardize numerous state legislative seats the Legislature wants to maintain.
So, the Leg is arguing that the DCA’s holding doesn’t apply to districts the *Legislature* decides to draw itself.
In our Miami racial gerrymandering case brought by GRACE, the NAACP, and others, the city’s summary judgment motion was denied today.
We’re set to go to trial Jan. 29. drive.google.com/file/d/15k85...
