{"id":285540,"date":"2026-05-27T01:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285540\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:45:08","slug":"florida-judge-denies-request-to-block-new-congressional-map-that-could-add-gop-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285540\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida judge denies request to block new congressional map that could add GOP seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; Florida&#8217;s new congressional map could stay in place for the 2026 midterms after a Florida judge denied to block it.<\/p>\n<p>The newest congressional map could give Republicans four more seats. That could help Republicans keep control of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents argue the maps are illegal since they violate Florida&#8217;s Fair Districts Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a constitutional provision adopted by the voters that prohibits partisan gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p>The judge said the reason he allowed the map for the midterms was to avoid voter confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Map opponents have already promised to appeal the decision to the state supreme court next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; Florida&#8217;s new congressional map could stay in place for the 2026 midterms after a Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-285540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}