PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the new Florida congressional map into law on Monday, and a lawsuit challenging its legality quickly followed.
Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature announced the redistricting map had passed on Wednesday. DeSantis announced he had signed it on X:
“Signed, sealed, and delivered,” one sign with his signature read. The next said, “Promise made, promise kept.”
A lawsuit against it quickly followed. Politico reported that Equal Ground Education Fund, a civil rights group, and 19 Florida voters asked a state judge to block the new map.
Related document: The 71-page complaint
“The 2026 plan is, by traditional measures of partisan gerrymandering, one of the most extreme gerrymanders in American history,” the attorneys wrote in the 71-page lawsuit. “Statistics like this do not occur by accident. They are the product of deliberate choices, made by professionals with sophisticated tools and a clear partisan goal: to pack and crack Democratic voters with surgical precision and deprive Florida voters of a fair map guaranteed to them by the Florida Constitution.”
The new map changed five key districts for Democrats, including U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents the 25th congressional district.
President Donald Trump pushed for redistricting before the midterms.
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