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Florida felons don’t have to repay fines, fees, and restitution before registering to vote. That’s according to a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle. He issued his decision Sunday after hearing arguments earlier in the month over a 2019 law that implemented a 2018 constitutional amendment to restore voting rights to most felons in Florida.
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A much-watched voting rights case in Florida came to a close on Wednesday with the federal judge explicitly stating that he would rule against the state...
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Amid rebukes from a federal judge, a top Florida elections official laid out the state’s process for determining whether felons are eligible to vote under a law that is the subject of a closely watched voting-rights trial that entered its second week Monday.
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Federal Judge Robert Hinkle has spent the last week doing double duty as judge and IT manager. While presiding over a major voting rights trial that is...
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The federal trial over a 2018 Florida law requiring felons to pay off their fines and penalties is underway. Plaintiffs argued Tuesday about how...
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As part of a partnership between WGCU and the FGCU journalism program, we are featuring the following stories created by senior students for their…
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Updated 9:08 p.m. ET, Apr. 27, 2020 The trial over whether a state law can require felons to pay back fines and fees before voting started Monday...
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A contentious civil rights trial is slated to start next Monday in federal court. On the one side sits the state of Florida and a slew of other states...
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Gov. Ron DeSantis asked an appeals court Friday to continue preventing felons from voting while the state appeals a federal judge’s finding that a law...
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A U.S. appeals court opinion unanimously upheld a Florida-based federal judge’s preliminary injunction ruling that the state cannot restrict ex-felons...