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Federal Appeals Court Hearing Concludes in Challenge to Florida Law Obstructing Voting Rights Restoration

The case concerns Senate Bill 7066, signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2019. Senate Bill 7066 made voting rights for hundreds of thousands of returning citizens contingent on payment of all legal financial obligations before being able to vote. This law directly undermines Florida voters' overwhelming passage of the Amendment 4 in 2018, which restored voting rights to over a million people with past felony convictions.NNPA NEWSWIRE — The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, Campaign Legal Center, and the Southern Poverty Law Center immediately sued. In May 2020, the district court struck down the law, but the ruling was put on hold pending the appeal by DeSantis.

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