Gov. Ron DeSantis is heightening tension over Florida’s congressional redistricting, indicating he still wants fellow Republican leaders in the Legislature to craft new boundaries that would eliminate half of the state’s districts now held by Black members of Congress.
DeSantis challenged lawmakers Friday, a day after the Florida Supreme Court refused to provide him with a requested advisory opinion on the constitutionality of erasing a Jacksonville-to-Tallahassee district represented by U.S. Rep. Al Lawson.
Lawson’s district and another now held by Orlando U.S. Rep. Val Demings would be dramatically reshaped under a proposed map put forward by DeSantis.
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