In a win for Republicans, a federal appeals court temporarily reinstated provisions on Friday of a Florida voting law that had been blocked in a March ruling, emphasizing that it was too close to the election.
A three-judge panel also determined that a lower-court judge failed to presume the Florida state legislature was acting in good faith when he struck down provisions in the law for being intentionally discriminatory with its restrictions on mail voting, third-party voter registration efforts, and drop boxes."The district court never once mentioned the presumption.
In March, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, an Obama appointee, nixed provisions in the voting law Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into effect last year. He railed against Republicans in the legislature for their"grotesque history of racial discrimination" and sided with the plaintiffs, which included a group of voting rights advocates.
The three-judge appeals court panel, all of whom were appointed by President Donald Trump, noted a Supreme Court ruling that said"the good faith of the state legislature must be presumed" in cases involving statutes that may be"tainted by discriminatory intent."
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