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It was on Saturdays, in the basement of a small townhouse near her childhood home, that Nancy Abudu got her first lessons in the power of standing up for her

The Eleventh Circuit on Monday refused to revive a gender and race discrimination challenge to a Florida law that requires former felons to pay all fines and fees before allowing them to vote, after finding that the two women who filed the suit failed to show that gender was a motivating factor in the passage of the law.

A federal appeals court Monday rejected arguments that a 2019 Florida law about felons’ voting rights is unconstitutional because of its effects on low-income minority women trying to go to the ballot box.

Florida's Senate Bill 7066 (SB-7066) requires former felons to pay all legal financial obligations before they can vote.

Fight over felon voting rights heads back to federal court Jake Stofan, Tallahassee correspondent Elbert P. Tuttle Courthouse in Atlanta (Photo courtesy: United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The fight to allow felons who are too poor to pay their court-ordered fines and fees continued Thursday in an Atlanta appellate court. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which advocates for the disadvantaged, is pushing a novel argument that Florida’s financial requirements disproportionately impact women of color and therefore violate the 19th Amendment. Last Septemb...