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Florida could be headed for a congressional do-over before the 2026 Midterms, and it appears House Speaker Daniel Perez and Gov. Ron DeSantis are on the same page.

In a memo to members, Perez said he will form a Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting to probe legal questions raised by last month’s Florida Supreme Court ruling in the Black Voters Matter lawsuit. The decision upheld the current map but found that a constitutional provision protecting minority voting power had, in practice, created a district drawn with race as a motivating factor — a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.

Perez pitched the move as a mid-decade “legal exploration,” but it’s also a ch

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