Five Tampa Bay residents filed a federal lawsuit to redraw Florida’s state Senate map. The 31-page complaint states Districts 16 and 18 are racially gerrymandered.
Quality Journalism for Critical Times As lawmakers redistricted in 2022, the Florida Legislature packed Black voters into a Senate district spanning Tampa Bay to favor white control of a neighboring Senate district, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Tampa. The ACLU of Florida, Civil Rights & Racial Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law, and […] The post Federal lawsuit: Two state Senate districts in Tampa Bay are ‘racially gerrymandered’ appeared first on Florida Pho