Florida abortion providers are breathing sighs of relief following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Monday striking down a Texas law that would have greatly limited access to legal abortion in that state.
The Texas law would have required doctors to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of the clinics where they perform abortions and clinics to meet the same standards as walk-in surgical centers.
The Florida congressional landscape is set to radically change after the November elections. Between redistricting, some unexpected retirements and two representatives running for the U.S. Senate, almost half of the Sunshine State’s 27 congressional seats are in play in the primaries or the general election. With that many seats up for grabs, Florida can expect some differences in how it's represented starting in 2017.
Most of the Republican field has cleared the path for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio to run for reelection this year except real estate developer Carlos Beruff, who is holding out to face off against Rubio in the primary.
The Florida congressional district is set to radically change after the November elections. Between redistricting, some unexpected retirements and two representatives running for the U.S. Senate, almost half of the Sunshine State’s 27 congressional seats are in play in the primaries or the general election. With that many seats up for grabs, Florida can expect some differences in how it's represented starting in 2017.
There might not have been much cursing or broken clubs, but there was one way in which Florida politics this week resembled a golf game: Everyone seemed to want a mulligan.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio asked for a do-over on his pledge not to run for re-election, three months after Republican voters rejected his presidential bid that prompted the guarantee in the first place. It was a decision that rippled through a campaign season that was beginning in earnest, and candidates at several levels were left scrambling to manage the fallout before Friday's qualifying deadline.
Jacksonville Rep. Charles McBurney will not be appointed as judge of Florida’s 4th Judicial Circuit, and the National Rifle Association could have had a big hand in why McBurney wasn’t selected.
Qualifying closed in Florida’s U.S. Senate race on Friday as Marco Rubio gears up to run for a second term.
After announcing on Wednesday that he would run again, Rubio chased out most of the Republican primary field. Congressman David Jolly pulled out last week even before Rubio launched his campaign. On Wednesday, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Congressman Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race. While he said he would stay in regardless of what Rubio did, businessman and Army veteran Todd Wilcox bowed out of the race on Friday.
On Friday, businessman and Army veteran Todd Wilcox ended his bid for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.
UPDATED: The Florida Attorney General's Office confirmed Friday it will have no role in investigating charges that could result from allegations businessman Andrew Korge attempted to bribe state Sen. Dwight Bullard to run for reelection in another district. "The jurisdiction lies with the state attorney, not our Office of Statewide Prosecution," the AG's press secretary, Kylie Mason, said in an email.
The recent gun massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando continued to reverberate in Washington, D.C., this week, as Democrats staged a daylong "sit-in" on the floor of the U.S. House calling for a vote on gun legislation.
Specifically, the Democrats said they wanted the Republicans to allow the chamber to debate a "no fly, no buy" bill that would bar people on terrorist watch lists from purchasing firearms. The House GOP leadership didn't immediately give in to the demands, and the incident made news across the country.
