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An injunction was granted because of changes to a congressional district where voting-rights groups say the ability of Black voters to elect a candidate of their choice would be eliminated.
The temporary injunction would freeze implementation of the new congressional district boundaries. However the appeal, filed with the 1st District Court of Appeals in Tallahassee, automatically puts a stay on the injunction preventing it from taking effect.
He agreed with voting-rights groups that said the changes to a North Florida congressional district would eliminate the ability of Black voters to elect a candidate of their choice.
DeSantis personally pushed the GOP-led Legislature to approve the map, which boosts the number of Republican-held seats in the nation’s third-largest state.
The judge's decision, certain to be appealed by the state, brings a new level of at least temporary chaos to this year’s election season.