Florida Supreme Court approves amendment language leaving the issue to voters for the upcoming 2024 elections and allows a six-week ban on abortion to take effect
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Our new report titled “Reckless Lawmaking” highlights the ways that police enforcement and driver’s license suspensions compound police brutality, poverty, and mass incarceration.
The Florida House of Representatives today voted to pass SB 1890, a bill that would impose limits on contributions to ballot initiative sponsors. SB 1890 continues the Florida Legislature’s strategy of sabotaging the ballot initiative process via legislative means.
The Senate Rules Committee today voted to pass SB 90, which aims to restrict Floridians’ access to vote-by-mail. The bill creates unnecessary hurdles to voter access, such as criminalizing giving food and water to voters in line and imposing restrictions on secure vote-by-mail drop boxes.