Florida Senate Redistricting Plan Trial Set In 2025
After allowing the lawsuit to proceed last month, a three-judge panel has scheduled a trial in June 2025 to challenge the constitutionality of a Florida A three-judge panel has scheduled a trial in 2025 to challenge the constitutionality of a Florida Senate redistricting plan. The lawsuit, filed in April, alleges that Senate District 16 and 18 in the Tampa Bay area were racially gerrymandered and violated constitutional equal-protection rights. Attorneys for Secretary of State Cord Byrd and Senate President Kathleen Passidomo argued that the case should be dismissed. However, a three-judicial panel of federal judges denied this request. The trial will be held in federal court in Tampa.
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After allowing the lawsuit to proceed last month, a three-judge panel has scheduled a trial in June 2025 to challenge the constitutionality of a Florida Senate redistricting plan.
The panel issued an order last week setting the trial for the week of June 9, 2025, in federal court in Tampa.
The lawsuit, filed in April, alleges that Senate District 16 and Senate District 18 in the Tampa Bay area were racially gerrymandered in the 2022 redistricting plan and violated constitutional equal-protection rights.
District 16, represented by Sen. Darryl Rouson, a Black Democrat from St. Petersburg, crosses Tampa Bay to include parts of Pinellas and Hillsborough counties.
White Republican Nick DiCeglie of Indian Rocks Beach represents District 18, which includes part of Pinellas County.
Attorneys for Secretary of State Cord Byrd and Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, argued the case should be dismissed.
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However, a three-judge panel of federal judges last month denied the request. Unlike typical cases, three-judge panels hear redistricting cases.
The panel is made up of Andrew Brasher, a judge on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. District Judges Thomas Barber and Charlene Edwards Honeywell.
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