Florida’s Republican governor unveils plan for redrawn congressional maps

Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, on Monday unveiled his proposal for redistricting his state’s congressional maps, a move he hopes will net his party up to four additional House seats in November’s midterm elections. The long-awaited reveal, which will be debated during a special session of Florida’s legislature called by DeSantis beginning Tuesday, is the latest, and possibly final, act of a nationwide “gerrymandering” battle for control of Congress sparked by Donald Trump that looks increasingly to be moving back in Republicans’ favor. The supreme court on Monday sided with Republicans in Texas by reinstating a redrawn electoral map that could flip up to five seats. Meanwhile, Virginia, another state with potentially consequential implications for November’s election, is locked in a legal fight over Democrats’ efforts to seize four Republican-held seats. Last week, a district court judge blocked a new map, approved just the day before in a referendum. Richmond circuit court judge Tracy Thorne-Begland then ruled against Republicans on Sunday, the Hill reported . The Virginia case will ultimately be decided by the state’s supreme court, which was hearing arguments on Monday. The Democrats’ biggest success came in California, where voters in November backed maps that could land them five additional seats. The supreme court ruled in February to reject a Republican challenge. …