The Florida Supreme Court sided Thursday with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, saying in an advisory opinion that the state’s 2018 constitutional amendment restoring voting rights to about 1.4 million people with felony records would require them to pay any outstanding financial obligations.

Last August, Mr. DeSantis asked the court to render an opinion on whether the phrase “all terms of sentence” in the amendment also would encompass the felon’s unpaid fines, fees and restitution.

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