.MaddowBlog: Voting rights advocates called Florida’s new voter suppression law an unconstitutional mess. A federal judge said they’re right.
In the wake of the 2020 elections, Florida Republicans had every reason to be pleased with the performance of their state’s electoral system. Indeed, officials in the Sunshine State initially took great pride in how well their system of elections performed in 2020 — a cycle in which GOP candidates excelled in races up and down the ballot.
A federal judge barred Florida from enforcing the bulk of its new restrictive voting law on Thursday, siding with opponents who said the law was discriminatory and needlessly infringed on Floridians’ voting rights. The plaintiffs “allege that SB 90 runs roughshod over the right to vote, unnecessarily making voting harder for all eligible Floridians, unduly burdening disabled voters, and intentionally targeting minority voters — all to improve the electoral prospects of the party in power,” Walker wrote. “Having reviewed all the evidence, this Court finds that, for the most part, Plaintiffs are right.”
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