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A voting sign in Florida

A sign is viewed outside an early voting location for the general election at a branch of the Orange County Public Library, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, in Winter Garden, Fla. (Phelan M. Ebenhack via AP)

A federal judge once spent nearly 300 pages overturning portions of a Florida law that he said intentionally aimed to restrict Black people from voting. Now, in a recent opinion, he spent fewer than 20 pages backtracking on the earlier ruling — after his opinion was reversed on appeal.

But the judge did not back away from mentioning the Sunshine State’s history and legacy of, and ongoing commitment to, anti-Black voting laws.

“As this Court previously found after a lengthy, two-week bench trial, the State of Florida has, with surgical precision, repeatedly changed Florida’s Election Code to target whichever modality of voting Florida’s Black voters were using at the time,” Tallahassee-based U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote earlier this month. “That was not this Court’s opinion — it is a fact established by the record in these cases. Even so, following the State of Florida’s appeal, this persistent and pernicious practice of targeting the modalities of voting most used by Florida’s Black voters has apparently received the stamp of approval in this Circuit.”

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