DeSantis Signals Florida Will Gerrymander Its Maps in the Spring

In an interview on Monday, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis indicated that he will likely call a special session of the state legislature in the near future to redraw congressional boundaries, as many GOP-led states across the country have already done in order to benefit the Republican Party.

In his comments to The Floridian , DeSantis was unforthcoming about the partisan nature of his plan, framing the move as a “requirement,” depending on the outcome of a Supreme Court case involving Texas’s mid-census redistricting.

“So, we’re going to redistrict,” he told the publication. “We’re going to do it next spring.”

Florida maps have already changed somewhat, following a challenge by state Republicans to a previously drawn map that had created a Black-majority district. The conserva