{"id":223129,"date":"2026-04-08T08:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223129\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:48:15","slug":"florida-lawmakers-likely-to-redraw-congressional-maps-before-supreme-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223129\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida lawmakers likely to redraw congressional maps before Supreme Court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; State lawmakers will return to Tallahassee in two weeks to redraw the state\u2019s congressional maps, but they don\u2019t have the Supreme Court ruling Gov. Ron DeSantis cited as the reason for the special session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DeSantis said he wants the GOP supermajority to move forward regardless of when the court rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think that\u2019s appropriate whether the decision comes before we do it or after,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DeSantis continues to make his case to redraw congressional boundaries before the midterms. His <a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/ow0nsq\/sbbxv23\/4c0i2ub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/ow0nsq\/sbbxv23\/4c0i2ub\">special session order<\/a> cites a Supreme Court case from Louisiana addressing the Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI also think we know how that Supreme Court case is going to come out at this point. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s much of a dispute about that. And I think Justice Alito is writing the opinion. So we\u2019re looking at our map, understanding the issues in that case, and fixing it,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Senate President Ben Albritton\u2019s office says he still agrees with his January memo to Senators to wait until they receive more guidance from the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">U.S. House districts are typically redrawn once a decade, immediately after a census. Florida has a constitutional amendment banning political gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-center article-text\">More Florida politics:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Many states are going into the midterms with new boundaries after President Donald Trump asked to keep more Republicans in Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cRepublicans nationwide have been scrambling to redraw our maps and rewrite the rules to defend their slim majority in Congress, redistricting in red states and trying to trick voters off the rolls with the SAVE Act,\u201d said Nikki Fried, Florida Democratic Party Chair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/emersoncollegepolling.com\/florida-2026-poll-donalds-leads-gop-primary-for-governor-republicans-outpace-democrats-in-florida-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/emersoncollegepolling.com\/florida-2026-poll-donalds-leads-gop-primary-for-governor-republicans-outpace-democrats-in-florida-elections\/\">Emerson College Poll<\/a> shows the majority of voters think this is a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe timing could not frankly be worse to have this special session,\u201d said political analyst Susan MacManus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The information lawmakers would use to draw new maps would be the same as the current maps drawn in 2022. MacManus said there\u2019s still a lot of uncertainty ahead of this special session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere are so many balls in the air right now. You can bet a lot of them have been looking at maps or thinking about how maps could be drawn, what lawsuits could happen,\u201d MacManus said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The special session is scheduled to start on April 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. 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