July 12, 2024Redistricting challenge ends in North FloridaA federal court ruled that the reconfiguration of Congressional District 5 was not racially motivated.…By News Service of Florida
May 2, 2024State defends North Florida congressional mapAttorneys say a previous plan, creating a majority Black district, was illegally based on race.…By Jim Saunders - News Service of Florida
March 28, 2024Federal court rejects challenge to North Florida redistrictingThe judges said plaintiffs failed to show the Legislature was discriminating when it eliminated a majority-Black congressional district in North…By Andrew Pantazi, The Tributary
September 5, 2023Judge rejects North Florida congressional mapCircuit Judge J. Lee Marsh ruled that a map pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis was unconstitutional because it diminished the…By Jim Saunders - News Service of Florida
August 25, 2023Judge expresses doubts over state’s redistricting argumentsA Florida judge pressed the state’s lawyers on whether they were asking him to contradict past precedent.…By Andrew Pantazi, The Tributary
August 23, 2023Is Voting Rights Act on trial in Florida? Redistricting case could have broad impactA redistricting battle over a North Florida congressional district could have national implications for Black voting rights.…By Andrew Pantazi, The Tributary and Mary Ellen Klas - Miami Herald
August 21, 2023Hearing set this week on North Florida redistrictingA judge will decide whether state lawmakers must reinstate Congressional District 5, a Black majority district that included Jacksonville.…By Valerie Crowder
June 11, 2023OPINION | ‘DeSantismander’ deserves a legal challengeFlorida’s congressional district map is a fraud, and the most glaring example is my district. No offense to Aaron Bean,…By A.G. Gancarski
June 20, 2022From Green Cove Springs to D.C.: Congressional Black Caucus executive director has local roots A Jax Today Q&A with Vince Evans Vince Evans stood against a wall, listening and nodding as Rep. Sheila Jackson…By Will Brown
April 17, 2022OPINION | Who wants to be a congressman?There was no surprise, none at all, for readers of this column regarding what the Florida Legislature would do with…By A.G. Gancarski
February 27, 2022OPINION | House redistricting map creates Jax-only CD5…lands with a thudThe intramural pissing match between Republicans in Tallahassee continues, and no clear resolution is at hand as they try to…By A.G. Gancarski
February 6, 2022OPINION | Lawson for Lt. Gov?Will Florida’s 5th Congressional District, which connects Jacksonville’s Urban Core to Gadsden County while hugging the Georgia border, become a…By A.G. Gancarski
January 23, 2022OPINION | Corrine’s revenge? Ron DeSantis goes after Al LawsonIs Gov. DeSantis trying to do what Jacksonville Democrats could not, in removing Al Lawson from Congress? That is one…By A.G. Gancarski