DeSantis: 'Appropriate' to pursue redistricting in Florida

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Thursday it would be “appropriate” to pursue redistricting in Florida in the middle of the decade due to population shifts and what he called “defects” in the way congressional lines have been drawn.

The governor’s comments came after he scored a win last week when the Florida Supreme Court upheld a congressional map that blocked a challenge to the elimination of a majority-Black congressional district in the north of the state that previously was represented by former Rep. Al Lawson (D). The area that comprised the former congressional district is now divided among three Republican lawmakers.

“Just last week the Florida Supreme Court upheld the map that all of the naysayers were saying was somehow defective,” DeSantis told reporters at a press conference in Manatee County.

“I think if you look at that Florida Supreme Court analysis, there may be more defects that need to be remedied apart from what we’ve already done. I also think the way the population has shifted around Florida just since the census was done in 2020, I think the state was malapportioned. So I do think it would be appropriate to do a redistricting here in the middecade,” he said.



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