Leon County Indivisible
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Editor’s Note: Ron DeSantis is wasting your tax dollars on right-wing crusades. Again. The state owes nearly half a million dollars to a biologist fired after reposting on social media […]
A Leon County Circuit Judge heard arguments that Florida’s new congressional group should be put on hold until after the Midterms.
Attorneys for voting rights groups argued that a clear partisan intent behind the map — which dismantles four Democratic-leaning districts while leaving most seats held by Republicans intact — violates a ban on partisan intent by mapmakers in Florida’s Constitution.
Circuit Judge Joshua Hawkes, an appointee of Gov. Ron DeSantis, said he will issue a decision in writing in coming days. He combined all lawsuits challenging the current map into one case this week, and said he would review all briefs and a transcript of a Friday hearing before making his decision.
Florida is moving to close the infamous “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center in the Everglades because it has grown too expensive to operate, according to The New York Times.
The embattled facility—which has cost the state of Florida $1 million a day to run—has been beset with allegations of unsafe living conditions, abusive treatment, and protests from Native American groups over its environmental harms. Now the facility that was framed as a huge success by President Trump and Governor DeSantis may collapse in failure.
The curriculum will describe slavery as a “necessary evil,” frame Plessy v Ferguson as a result of “the failure of Reconstruction” after the Civil War, and credit federal law that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for “decreased slave power representation.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis got to put the finishing touches on one of his 2026 legislative priorities Friday, signing a union-restricting bill that had been subject to intense debate in Florida’s Capitol.
DeSantis signed SB 1296 at Fort Myers High School on May Day, a worldwide holiday observing the labor movement.
Although the focus of the news conference was on education and teacher unions, the state teachers’ union, Florida Education Association; and AFL-CIO, said the law will touch an array of sectors.
FEA President Andrew Spar said DeSantis and “anti-union, anti-worker legislators” are “chipping away at the constitutionally enshrined rights of thousands of workers in the state.”
lorida voters and pro-voting group Equal Ground Education Fund filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the GOP’s new congressional gerrymander, urging a court to block the map for violating the state constitution’s ban on partisan gerrymandering.
The map was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who led the unusual mid-decade redistricting as part of President Donald Trump’s broader effort to tilt the 2026 midterm elections.
Florida Republicans raced to enact the map with minimal public input and despite sharp criticism from Democrats — as well as unease within their own party.
An attorney representing Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that the proposed congressional redistricting map he presented Monday to the Legislature is constitutional because federal law supersedes language in the 2010 Fair District Amendments.
DeSantis’ new map is likely to add as many as four Republican congressional seats to the 20 out of 28 that they now hold in Florida. DeSantis only began speaking about redistricting after President Donald Trump last year called on red states to change their congressional maps to aid Republicans in the 2026.
U.S. Senate Republicans approved a budget resolution early Thursday intended to speed the way for billions for immigration enforcement, sending the measure to the House, where GOP lawmakers in that chamber need to adopt it to unlock the reconciliation process.
The 50-48 vote followed a marathon amendment voting session that Democrats used to highlight policy differences on cost-of-living issues and stalled federal emergency relief dollars for states.
The Florida Supreme Court has unanimously elected John D. Couriel for a two-year term as chief justice, beginning on July 1. He succeeds Carlos Muñiz, who will remain on the […]
Florida officials are fighting a court order to expand detainee phone access at the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” center, arguing it would be too costly for taxpayers — but they’ve already […]
The Department of Homeland Security is currently trying to execute a $40 billion plan to build a national network of concentration camps. They are quietly buying up warehouses to hold thousands of human beings, attempting to construct a detention network that would ultimately eclipse the entire existing federal criminal prison system.
And because they know exactly how politically toxic this is, they are trying to do it in the dark. They have built and continue to build these facilities without congressional approval and without giving warning to the communities forced to host them.
The infamous Florida immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” can remain open, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, overturning a lower judge’s decision to close the facility because it violated federal environmental laws.
The ruling is the latest development in the months-long legal battle against the center, which was constructed in the Everglades last summer by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration when the Department of Homeland Security needed more detention space to house immigrants pending their deportations.