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C'mon people, this is the quality Conflict of Laws content I know y'all want
When a lawsuit involves connections to multiple states, the court must determine which state's law will govern the case. States follow several different choice of law approaches to make those determinations (some follow more than one!) 1/4
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BREAKING: FL state trial judge Layne Smith will block the DeSantis map in North FL for 2022, ordering a restored FL-05 be used this year.
FYI: Judge Smith served in Rick Scott’s admin, was appointed to the county bench by Scott, elevated to the 2nd Circuit by DeSantis.
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The blue wave broke hard in the Texas Courts of Appeals last week, where Dems flipped 24 judgeships. In four courts, they went from *zero* seats to a majority.
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“The enacted map is unconstitutional under the Fair District Amendment, because it diminishes African Americans’ ability to elect the representative of their choice.”
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Once reduced to writing, the state can appeal the order to the 1st District Court of Appeal, which could stay the ruling.
The 1st DCA could hear it themselves or certify a matter of great public importance and ask the FL Supreme Court to take it directly.
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Rick Scott set 22 special elections as governor. On average, he took 8.5 days after a vacancy arose.
Crist's average was 6.5 days. Jeb? 7.5.
It's been 70 days. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
It's been 5+ weeks, and DeSantis still hasn't set special elections to fill these 3 predominantly Black legislative seats.
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WIN IN MIAMI!! Court rejects City Commission’s new map as still racially gerrymandered and orders our plaintiffs’ map, P4!
Order here:
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Judge Smith will go with plaintiffs’ proposed Map A, which plops in the CD5 from the Leg’s “backup” map 8015 into the enacted DeSantis map. Will look similar to this:
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DeSantis is slow-walking filling a seat on Florida’s most important trial court, so his eventual appointee won’t have to face voters in the blue-leaning circuit next year.
The Constitution allows a 60 day wait. It’s been 107.
Months after Judge Kevin Carroll's death,
@GovRonDeSantis
hasn’t begun process to appoint a successor
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To clarify, the plaintiffs sought preliminary relief *only* on their FL-05 diminishment claim.
Regardless of this interim order (and appeal), the case continues on the merits for all the claims:
Claims - all under FL’s Fair Districts Am:
- diminishing minority ability-to-elect (5)
- intentional minority vote dilution (N FL, C FL, Tampa Bay)
- partisan gerrymandering (4-5, 7, 10-11, 13-14, 26-27)
- non-compactness (7, 13-14)
- political/geographic boundaries (4, 5, 13-14)
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Fla House Dems have filed 40+ amendments to the 96-page elections bill that will be heard (and likely sent to DeSantis) tomorrow.
They show what real pro-voter policy looks like. Some highlights:
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Over the entire 2016–20 cycle, Dems flipped 36 of 74 Court of Appeals judgeships, securing overall majorities on half of the courts.
In 4 courts, they went from ZERO seats to a majority in a single year.
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This is Florida’s first unanimous legislative redistricting vote in 40 years
It's official. The Senate took up the combined legislative maps in one bill, SB 100, and approved in 37-0. Now it's on to the Florida Supreme Court.
#FlaPol
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Those Dem gains were in Clinton/Beto areas – but Beto definitely improved on Clinton (especially around Austin and Dallas).
The GOP now has an overall 39-37 edge in Court of Appeals judgeships.
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As a reminder... DeSantis didn’t veto the Jacksonville-Tallahassee FL-05. He vetoed this district.
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First time FL Dems have flipped a legislative seat since 2018.
I've seen enough.
Democrat Tom
@KeenforFL
has won the special election is Florida House District 35 (a sort of battleground seat) over Republican
@Erika_Booth_
.
Margin of just under 600 votes or appx 2.7%
#FlaPol
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To put this in perspective: if these seats aren't filled by session, the GOP could waive the rules with just 1 Dem absence in the House. Just 1 Dem Senate absence and the GOP could pass a constitutional amendment without Jeff Brandes' support.
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the conversations I overhear in Tallahassee coffeeshops... people need to learn it’s not just clueless college students in here
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I was geographically raised in the Florida Panhandle. But culturally, my upbringing reflected the feudal peasant communities in 16th-century Bohemia and northeast Moravia
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Personal news: I’m moving to Jacksonville. Catch me in the bold new city o’ the south 🤙🏼
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A reminder that FL Amendment 3 (top-two primaries) is the pet project of a single kooky billionaire and his millionaire lawyer. Not a grassroots reform.
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Florida budget line items for litigation expenses of the Executive Office of the Governor and Dep’t of State
h/t
@jack4jax
for the inspiration
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Thanks to NYC's phenomenal dark-money law (sponsored by
@bradlander
), a PAC's top three donors have to be listed on its advertisements directed at NYC voters. This is a model for the country.
Quite the paid-for disclaimer on the first Andrew Yang super PAC. Three Republican megadonors:
Jeff Yass
Kenneth Griffin
Daniel Loeb
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tfw you intentionally leave a paragraph blank in your federal lawsuit to allow the prior paragraph to sink in
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Update: adding to their 2018 gains, Dems flipped another 8 TX Court of Appeals seats in 2020.
The GOP flipped 2 seats on the 13th COA, in – you guessed it – the Rio Grande Valley.
The blue wave broke hard in the Texas Courts of Appeals last week, where Dems flipped 24 judgeships. In four courts, they went from *zero* seats to a majority.
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Since it’s newly relevant… hard to overstate how monumental
@CharlieCrist
’s 2007 voting rights restoration policy was
In '07, Crist's overhaul passed with bipartisan support from CFO Alex Sink and Ag Comm'r Charles Bronson. Here's the full view of the 50-year span, without a broken axis, to put in perspective the impact of their rule change.
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Hard to believe, but there are 12 GOP-held FL House seats that DeSantis did worse in than HD35 (he won it by 12.5)
Here we go, the results for the HD35 special election
Tom Keen flipped this seat for the Democrats, winning by just over 400 votes and just under 3%
As discussed before, the vast bulk of the vote comes from the eastern Orlando area, lots of empty land otherwise
#flapol
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Florida’s new anti-Asian property ownership law is unfair, discriminatory, and xenophobic.
Proud to be helping
@AALDEF
and DeHeng Law challenge this unconstitutional throwback to America’s shameful past.
BREAKING: We’re suing Florida over a discriminatory property law that blocks most immigrants from China, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Russia, and North Korea from buying homes in much of the state.
The law singles out Chinese people for the harshest restrictions and penalties.
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‼️ WIN in Jax - federal court agrees we’re substantially likely to win our racial gerrymandering claim, blocks the City Council map for the March election, and gives city the chance to redraw by Nov. 8!
Order:
(more articulate statements to come…)
“Jacksonville’s racially gerrymandered maps that diminish Black voices in government must be halted as soon as possible.”
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Keep hammering Durbin on blue slips, but don’t overlook Bernie has yet to even schedule a HELP Committee vote on Kalpana Kotagal, who would give Dems a majority on the EEOC
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If Andrew Gillum or Sean Shaw win Tuesday, it will certainly be historic. But they won't be the first African-Americans elected to statewide office in Florida.
That title belongs to an extraordinary man: Josiah T. Walls. Let's map his political career. 1/9
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The panel in our racial gerrymandering case over two Tampa-area Florida Senate districts just unanimously denied the state’s motion to dismiss, allowing our case to proceed 🥳
Read the order:
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Before posting a pic of your marked ballot this election year — check your local laws. 20+ states ban "ballot selfies" in some way.
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Rep.
@MarieWoodsonFL
proposes same-day voter registration, putting FL on par with Utah, Iowa, Wyoming, and 20 other states
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There's no such thing as a "Legislator-Elect" in Florida. Legislators take office upon election.
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Somehow, I screwed up the statewide vote totals/percentages in the senate race. Here is the corrected. The district-level results did not change.
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@mjs_DC
Biden hasn’t even made a nomination for the 2-year-old SDFL vacancy, despite both the Rubio and Democratic JNCs agreeing on a common candidate a year ago…
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Ever think some federal circuits look odd? They were gerrymandered – after the Civil War to minimize Southern influence on the courts 1/4
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Election Day was a month ago – but in most states, the old lawmakers are still in office. All but 8 states have a lame duck period of some length.
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.
@RepSkidmore
proposes giving voters a right to counsel when the state accuses them of being ineligible to vote
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It's been 5+ weeks, and DeSantis still hasn't set special elections to fill these 3 predominantly Black legislative seats.
In the end, the 3 legislators running for
#FL20
resigned on the deadline.
If DeSantis waits as long to call their specials as he did for FL20, their 3 predominantly Black seats will be vacant for the entire 2022 legislative session.
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“His legal team went so far as to argue that amendments ratified by the citizens deserve less legal protections than statutes enacted by the Legislature.”
This is not a man who believes in democracy.
Last week, Gov.
@RonDeSantis
made a stark admission: his congressional map diminished Black voting power. Now the governor's lawyers are setting their sights on getting a court to strike down voter-approved protections that mirror the Voting Rights Act.
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I know we're still getting used to the new PA congressional map, but here's what it might look like after the next redistricting (using latest county pop estimates, projected to 2020)
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Someone please explain why this gala featured a gl*ry h*le for passing out drinks
Annual TMH gala is delusionally out of touch, reflects everything wrong w/ local $ establishment
a self-congratulatory antebellum “eyes wide shut” soirée for hayseed socialites, by a D-rated hospital best known for ransomware on patients’ data
… headlined by a country act 🤢
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Maybe Jeb Bush shouldn’t have appointed such an incompetent person to be Broward supervisor of elections
#Florida
law requires counties report early voting & vote-by-mail within 30 minutes after polls close. 43 hours after polls closed 2 Democrat strongholds
#BrowardCounty
&
#PalmBeachCounty
are still counting & refusing to disclose how many ballots they have left to count.
#Sayfie
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Lordy – Sen.
@DannyBurgessFL
just filed a broad local preemption bill, banning local govts from adopting “laws, regulations, rules, or policies” relating to:
- water quality or quantity
- pollution control
- wetlands
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The
@ACLUFL
voting rights team has won
- 3 final judgments
- from 3 federal judges
- apptd by each of the last 3 Republican presidents
- in each of Florida’s 3 federal courts
- in each of the last 3 years 🎰
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Here we go again... DeSantis is waiting longer than any other governor in known history to call a special election for a vacant legislative seat
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Some 𝒑𝙚𝒓𝙨𝒐𝙣𝒂𝙡 𝙣𝒆𝙬𝒔: In July 2021, I applied for a vacant seat on the Tallahassee Code Enforcement Board.
Two years later, the City Commission has *still* not appointed anyone, as state law requires. So this week, I sued to compel them to perform their duty.
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Knowingly violating the Sunshine Law by participating in a private meeting is quite literally a crime
Just walked into Commission Offices and Mayor Dailey is in Commissioner Richardson’s office discussing an upcoming Blueprint item.
“Bugra is under an NDA with OEV. His documents were marked confidential. Someone messed up.”
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WE WON!!!! New court-ordered map to be used in the March & May elections, view it on Google Maps here:
BREAKING: A federal judge rejected, for a second time, the Jacksonville City Council's redistricting plan.
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Bill sponsors insist anyone with Qs about their eligibility can simply get an opinion from the Dept of State.
In reality, an opinion can take *years* and offers no protection from prosecution.
@RitaForFlorida
would change that.
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Iowa only has 2 million registered voters.
EXCLUSIVE: Campaigning Casey DeSantis and son Mason, five, throw snowballs while knocking on door number THREE MILLION in Iowa for her husband's campaign
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Another redistricting win for Florida’s Black voters. This is Taylor County’s first new map in 41 years and will protect fair representation for decades to come!
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Welcome to the Florida Senate, where congressional & Senate maps will be voted out shortly.
A historic moment, only happens once every 10 years! Except for the 4 other times it happened in the last 10 years...
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Georgia State Senate, 2000. Rural Dem strength is crumbling, but there's still so darn much of it.
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Absolute bombshell investigation, reveals Comm’r
@vanessabaugh
flat-out lied about drawing maps by herself.
A fraud on the public resulting in a map that erodes Black and Latino voting power, likely resulting in the lone minority/Dem member losing.
TBT's Dawn Kitterman takes a deep dive through all of the available data to get to the bottom of this year's redistricting process and the question on everyone's minds: who drew the maps?
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What’s the point of the law anymore when we have judges like these
Jasrasaria: It's not for appellees or this court to question what the FL Supreme Court did.
Tanenbaum: Why not? It was acting in a political capacity.
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The 4 Congressional maps are very similar. They only differ between FL2/3 in Alachua/Marion and whether 21/22 go "vertical" or "horizontal." This is plan 8002.
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Okay, why is FL-05 protected from (substantial) dismantling under current Florida law? 🧵🗺️🧵 /1
Would it be helpful or not helpful for me to do a thread on why FL-05 is protected? And would there be any interest
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The
@ACLUFL
is 14-0 on local redistricting litigation & advocacy so far this cycle. By next week, it’ll be 15-0.
Y’all, I’m gratified af to be in this work. So proud of the
@ACLUFL
’s 2020 redistricting campaigns, which have largely focused on smaller, underserved communities.
And folks…
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Remember when it took DeSantis 91+ days (and a lawsuit) to call special elections for 3 majority-Black districts last year?
Less than two weeks to call a special for this Trump +23 seat.
.
@GovRonDeSantis
has issued an exec order setting the dates of the Special Election in HD 24:
March 7, 2023 for the Primary
May 16, 2023 for the General
(Race will be decided in Primary, of course.)
#FlaPol
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Rep.
@Robin_Bartleman
’s amendment would make good on the Legislature’s unrealized promise to the disability community, by protecting disabled voters’ right to receive an accessible mail ballot
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Re-upping this since folks are talking about court-packing again – this is how you court-pack, Radical Republican-style.
Ever think some federal circuits look odd? They were gerrymandered – after the Civil War to minimize Southern influence on the courts 1/4
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By a 6-1 vote, Florida Supreme Court adopts rule to shields corporate executives from discovery. Only 4 other states have this rule.
The lone moderate/liberal Labarga, dissenting:
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Plaintiffs seek an interim map for North Florida only –this preliminary injunction is just about FL-05.
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Looks like the FL Dems will have a candidate in every congressional district this year.
FL GOP is running a candidate everywhere except against
@CongresswomanSC
, who I believe just won unopposed.
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Bill sponsors claim any voter can just call a hotline to ask about their eligibility, but the state is doing nothing to publicize that service (which may not be a real thing, but...)
Rep.
@JohannaForFL
would ensure each voter gets notice of the # to call – and who’s responsible.
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Since the governor refuses to call this special election, we’re suing to force him to do his job.
Read our mandamus petition in Zamora v. DeSantis here:
Here we go again... DeSantis is waiting longer than any other governor in known history to call a special election for a vacant legislative seat
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every single time
At the heart of it is this: if federal courts give Louisiana legislators a chance to draw a remedial plan, Rs could draw a 50.1% Black
#LA05
that's just Biden +6 (example below) - far from a safe Dem pickup, particularly if a popular R incumbent is running.
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We filed suit today challenging 4 congressional and 7 State House districts in South FL as racially gerrymandered. 🧵
Read the complaint here:
BREAKING: We joined partners to file suit in federal court today, challenging the racial gerrymandering of four congressional districts and seven state house districts in South and Southwest Florida, in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
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Never forget the local elected school board unanimously *rejected* this charter school’s application to open, but they were overturned by the Rick Scott administration
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Rep.
@AnnaForFlorida
proposes keeping FL’s monthly campaign finance reporting, rather than changing to quarterly reports as the bill would do.
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Lotta bipartisan smirks on the House floor right now…
I will veto the congressional reapportionment plan currently being debated by the House. DOA.
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First the state government banned protests at the Capitol, now
@CityofTLH
is revoking protest permits for city-owned parks too?
Inbox: "City of Tallahassee Revokes Permit For
#OccupyTally
- Activists Plan to Occupy Anyways in Protest Against House Bill 7 / Senate Bill 300, a Near Total Ban on Abortion"
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The deadline has passed for briefs and comments opposing the House & Senate maps in the Fla Supreme Court.
This is the first time a legislative apportionment has gone unopposed since the automatic review process was created in 1968.
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@Taniel
In 1889, Florida became the first state to adopt a poll tax. The number of votes cast in the next statewide election dropped in half (from 66K to 35K).
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@xenocryptsite
*elsa leans against balcony railing, takes long drag of cigarette, looks out into distance toward eiffel tower*
"ze cold, for me, ZAT eez ze price of freedôm"
*flicks ash at tourist passing below*
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It looks like Democrats picked up a whopping 8 seats in the New York State Senate yesterday. Assuming the 3 former renegade Dems stay with the caucus, that'll be a 40-23 majority.
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The court-ordered remedy, P4, on Google Maps:
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Only Dem running in a Trump +0, Gillum +10, *Shaw* +8, *Murphy* +0 seat:
1/ Today I am announcing that I will no longer seek the Democratic nomination for Florida State Senate District 36. This difficult decision comes after consultation with my family, close friends and campaign team. Although we have been humbled by the overwhelming local and
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Rep.
@EdmondsJervonte
proposes protecting voters whose signatures change due to disability and other medical issues — who under current law may be disenfranchised.
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Florida has a statewide 6% sales tax, but counties can levy their own sales tax too. What happens next may surprise you!
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2020's 8 new Dem justices include:
- the only Hispanic or Latina justices in Houston (joining one other nonwhite justice, elected '18)
- the second Hispanic or Latina justice in Dallas (joining the first ever, elected '18)
- Latina women chief justices in the 4th and 8th
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The next steps:
- Judge Smith’s written order is rendered tonight
- state moves the 1st DCA for a new stay
- that is briefed/argued in the DCA
- meanwhile, DCA decides whether to pass the case thru to Fla Supreme Court (as plfs want)
- or brief & argue merits of the injunction
BREAKING: A Tallahassee judge has vacated the automatic stay for new congressional districts in North Florida. This means the court-ordered North Florida districts are back in play. Story to come.
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Totally overshadowed by other events, but Broward County overwhelmingly passed two fair-redistricting charter amendments on Tuesday.
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On top of this, one of the 3 Republican NLRB seats is up in August – meaning Biden can appoint a pro-labor majority (members serve staggered 5-year terms)
Scoop: Biden Administration has told Trump's Labor Board general counsel Peter Robb he can resign by tonight or else be fired.
NLRB general counsel has sweeping authority, and if left in place Robb's term would've run another 10 months.
w/
@IanKullgren
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@mjs_DC
In a recent trial, a lawyer objected that a question called for an opinion. Cannon sustained the objection. The problem? It was an expert witness.
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We did this TOGETHER - GRACE
@EngageMIA
@MiamiNAACP
@SouthDadeNAACP
and the phenomenal individuals who stepped up for their communities
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The Court took almost a year to rule on this initiative – longer than any in its history. Leaving the sponsors in limbo, unable to prepare a corrected summary in time for 2022.
The Court and Legislature are strangling direct democracy.
Breaking: Florida Supreme Court rules that ballot summary of initiative to allow adults 21 or older to have, use, purchase and transport up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana and paraphernalia is unleading.
Read the opinion here:
#FlaPol
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In the past 9 days I’ve won 3 lawsuits, filed 4 lawsuits, and seen 1 eclipse
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Good news for voting rights – federal judge Allen Winsor has blocked Florida's unconstitutional limit on citizen initiative donations (SB 1890) from going into effect this morning!
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