KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—The case challenging the legality of Congressman Aaron Bean’s district is headed to the Florida Supreme Court. The first-term lawmaker was elected to Florida’s 4th Congressional District in 2022 in a district that includes all of Clay and Nassau counties and the western portion of Duval.
Bean visited Keystone Heights last month to update constituents on legislative issues but did not address the pending litigation.
Leon County Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh ruled the district unconstitutional. Voting rights groups had sued the state, claiming that when Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature redrew the district in 2022, they violated the 2010 Fair Districts constitutional amendment.
The district’s redrawing in 2022 changed it from a black-majority district stretching from Jacksonville to Tallahassee into its current configuration.
