Florida’s current map was drafted in 2022 by DeSantis’ office. It was challenged by plaintiffs who argued that it reduced Black voting power by dismantling a North Florida seat held by a Black Democrat. DeSantis argued the district relied too much on race.

The Republicans who control Florida’s legislature on Tuesday will take up a new map proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to give GOP an edge in four seats now held by Democrats – in what is likely the final maneuver in the coast-to-coast redistricting battle that has raged for months between the political parties.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is emerging as a voice of AI skepticism in the Republican Party, but the state Legislature declined to take up his push for AI legislation.

Ron DeSantis was once the future of the Republican Party, a battle-tested conservative twice elected as governor of Florida. Then Donald Trump steamrolled him on his way back to the White House. Now,