Federal appeals court finds Florida voting law not discriminatory

Proponents of a recent Florida voting law got a win on Thursday after the Eleventh Circuit disagreed with a lower court finding that provisions of the law discriminated against Black voters. The lower court used “flawed statistical analyses” and “out-of-context statements by individual legislators” in deciding the law was discriminatory, Chief Judge William Pryor wrote, reversing that lower ruling. In fact, there was “hardly any evidence” of intentional discrimination, the George W. Bush appointee argued. Megan Butler, Courthouse News Service. 

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