Overview
- Nixon, arrested Friday evening after a five-hour sit-in outside Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office, was taken into custody by Capitol Police with charges not yet specified in local reports.
- The arrest followed Thursday’s formal reprimand from the Florida House Rules and Ethics Committee for using a pink megaphone to disrupt the April 29 redistricting vote, a rare step described as the first such reprimand in about 20 years.
- The new congressional map, crafted by a policy staffer in the governor’s office and signed May 4, is a mid‑decade redraw outside the usual post‑census cycle.
- Voting‑rights groups including Common Cause and Equal Ground have asked a Tallahassee circuit judge to issue an injunction that would stop the map from being used in this year’s elections.
- Democrats argue the plan violates Florida’s anti‑gerrymandering rules and could give Republicans up to four more of the state’s 28 U.S. House seats, while DeSantis publicly backed the arrest as justified on X.