DeSantis earlier had submitted his own proposed congressional map that erased two of the state’s four districts with large minority populations, currently represented by U.S. Rep. Al Lawson of Tallahassee and U.S. Rep. Val Demings of Orlando.
Even as lawmakers ended their two-month session earlier this month, the governor vowed to veto the congressional plan when it was sent to him. It arrived on his desk Tuesday morning and, as he’d earlier said, it was “D.O.A.,” or dead on arrival.
The governor’s approach also would’ve made it likely for Republicans to win 18 of Florida’s 28 congressional districts, while a second map proposed by DeSantis upped that to 20 of the state’s seats. A secondary map, which could be approved by a court if it rejected the first because of how it treated minority voters, also was part of the package approved by the House and Senate. It left largely intact Congressional District 5’s current shape, from Jacksonville to Tallahassee, where it links urban and rural Black communities across North Florida.
He also says the plan strays from a 2017 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a North Carolina seat that found it unconstitutional to racially gerrymander a seat, except in narrow instances, which Lawson’s Jacksonville-to-Tallahassee district may not meet.
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