The Florida Supreme Court ruled in a case Democrats hoped could have given them an additional seat ahead of the midterms.

Florida picked up a new seat due to the census. Nationally, Republicans were generally regarded by experts as the slight victors in the 2022 redistricting battle, a pre-game of sorts to the midterms.

Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a Fair-Side Chat with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds at the Iowa State Fair, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa.

TALLAHASSEE - When Florida voters in 2010 passed a constitutional amendment setting rules for congressional redistricting, they barred drawing districts that would "diminish" the ability of ...

Marsh issued a 55-page decision that sided with a coalition of voting-rights groups that challenged the redistricting plan, which Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed through the Legislature in 2022.

TALLAHASSEE — A state appeals court Friday upheld a congressional redistricting plan that Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed through the Legislature, rejecting arguments that it unconstitutionally ...

Read full article: Florida lawmakers ask judge to protect them from testifying in redistricting legal fight A Florida Supreme Court ruling will let this congressional redistricting map approved by ...

Republicans wary of missteps But Florida Republicans also may be seeking to avoid a repeat of the three years of lawsuits, depositions, hearings and trials that followed redistricting in 2012.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Voting rights groups that sued state officials over a Florida redistricting plan championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis have agreed to narrow the scope of the lawsuit to a ...