Ron DeSantis Gets Good News From Florida Supreme

In late May, RedState reported on a ruling that was handed down in consolidated lawsuits filed by leftist teams wanting to block Florida’s new congressional map from taking impact forward of the 2026 midterms.

In that ruling, Circuit Judge Joshua Hawkes denied the plaintiffs’ non permanent injunction request. Hawkes famous in half that ruling against the state at this late date was not a good thought, seeing as how Florida’s main is on August 18th. The decide also had considerations about the state’s current twentieth Congressional District in mild of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais ruling.

“Plaintiffs’ evidence focuses on challenging the constitutionality of the 2026 map, but does not sufficiently challenge the political branches’ finding that CD-20 in the 2022 map was drawn with impermissible racial intent,” the decide wrote, while including that “Plaintiffs’ evidence at this stage is insufficient to support the permissibility of this Court forcing the 2022 map onto the electorate in contravention of the duly enacted 2026 map.”

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Lawyers for the plaintiffs, which embrace Common Cause and Equal Ground Education Fund, vowed to take their case to the Florida Supreme Court, which they in fact did. And on Tuesday, the court announced its determination:

The new congressional district map will stay in impact for the midterm elections, after the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a push to block the new configuration.

In a 6-1 ruling, the court decided the First District Court of Appeal ought to take into account the deserves of the case before it weighs in on the matter. Equal Ground Education Fund and two other voting rights teams introduced the case alleging the new districts have been drawn to favor the Republican Party, a violation of the state’s anti-gerrymandering law, but the First DCA did not grant a non permanent injunction while the underlying case is pending.

“At this time, we do not have jurisdiction over that matter, and we do not simply assume that the First District’s decision will provide an appropriate basis for this Court’s review,” the court ruling states.

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Although the underlying case will still progress through the court course of, the maps will stay in place.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), of course, took a victory lap on X:

The Florida Supreme Court has REJECTED the problem to the state’s redistricting plan and new map.

This assures that the lately enacted map shall be in place for the 2026 election.

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) June 10, 2026

Republicans at present maintain 20 of Florida’s 28 congressional seats. The new map might doubtlessly web them another 4 House seats in the upcoming midterm elections. 

The map has already brought on big issues between longtime Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) and the black Democrats operating for the open seat in the more Democrat-friendly, majority minority District 20, because Wasserman Schultz has now determined to run for that seat, too, as RedState beforehand reported.

Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will decide the destiny of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must keep control of both chambers of Congress.

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