Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis is the reigning champ of the outrageous partisan gerrymander. In the last decennial redistricting in the Sunshine State, DeSantis contemptuously rejected a map drafted by his Republican legislature and came up with his own that generated a net gain of four GOP U.S. House seats in 2022 (gains Republicans held in 2024) and an overall 20-8 margin in the state. He did so despite the apparent restraints placed on gerrymandering by a 2010 “Fair Districts” state ballot initiative creating a set of tests for prospective plans. Most recently, the Florida Supreme Court approved the DeSantis map on grounds that federal laws banning racial gerrymandering overrode state laws that had protected certain Democratic majority-minority congressional districts.

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