Eleventh Circuit Sides With DeSantis on Election-Law Court Order

A federal appeals court has halted a judge’s order that demanded preclearance before Florida enacts new laws on absentee ballot drop boxes, third-party voter registration groups, or precinct “line warming.”

The lower court’s ruling relying on an analysis of racism in Florida’s history is “problematic,” and “failed to properly account for what might be called the presumption of legislative good faith,” according to the order issued Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Additionally, the state has “a substantial argument” that another provision in the law governing “line warming” activities outside polling places “passes constitutional muster,” ...