Ron DeSantis admin hit with lawsuit over Florida's new district map making 4 more GOP seats

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a new congressional map into law, as the back and forth between blue and red states to get a leg up in congressional seats has intensified. The move is already facing a legal battle.

"Signed, Sealed, and Delivered," DeSantis wrote on X with the updated congressional map.

The new map makes changes to 21 of the 28 congressional districts in Florida. The shift could flip around four seats from Democrats to Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. Currently, the House GOP has a razor-thin majority in Congress of 217 to 212. Last year, starting with Texas with the backing of President Donald Trump, GOP majority states started to redraw their congressional maps in hopes of gaining a few more congressional seats.

However, after Florida's map was signed, a legal challenge was launched by the left-wing group Equal Ground Education Fund. The complaint asked for an injunction to halt the map change and requested that a judge declare that "the 2026 Plan and/or individual districts in the 2026 Plan violate Article III, Section 20 of the Florida Constitution" and to enjoin Republican state officials from changing the current map. 

Florida is the latest state to finalize their congressional map redraw under the leadership of DeSantis. The map was approved just days ago by the GOP-led legislature. Florida Republicans currently hold 20 out of 28 seats in Congress. With the new map put in place, that number could increase to 24 in the midterm elections.

The four Democrats who are now vulnerable based on the results of the last presidential election include Reps. Kathy Castor, Jared Moskowitz, Darren Soto, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, per Florida Politics.
 

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