Senate Redistricting Fight Teed Up

Senate Redistricting Fight Teed Up

TALLAHASSEE — A panel of federal judges is set to decide whether a Florida Senate district that stretches across Tampa Bay was racially gerrymandered and needs to be revamped.

Redistricting trial ends, judges to consider arguments about racial gerrymandering

Last week, a federal trial over North Carolina’s redistricting maps heard closing arguments. This is the latest trial over the 2023 redistricting maps for North Carolina’s congressional and state senate districts that lawyers for civil activists claim were drawn in a way that dilutes Black voters’ power.  In 2023, Common Cause, alongside the North Carolina NAACP, a group of Black voters, and a separate group of Black and Latino residents, sued o…