DeSantis to Call Special Session for Congressional Redistricting

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to call lawmakers back to Tallahassee next spring to redraw the state’s congressional district map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. “So we’re going to redistrict,” the governor told local news outlet, The Floridian. “The issue is that there is a Supreme Court decision that we are waiting on—the argument in October about Section 2 of the VRA [Voting Rights Act] that impacts Florida’s maps—so we’re going to do it next spring.” That section of the Voting Rights Act prohibits states from passing laws discriminating against voters based on “race or color,” but in recent years has been used to require states to draw African American-majority congressional districts if they are able to....