{"id":157951,"date":"2026-01-19T02:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=157951"},"modified":"2026-01-19T02:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:47:21","slug":"desantis-calls-for-special-session-in-april-to-redraw-floridas-congressional-districts-in-gops-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=157951","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;DeSantis calls for special session in April to redraw Florida&#8217;s congressional districts in GOP&#8217;s favor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/desantis-calls-for-special-session-in-april-to-redraw-floridas-congressional-districts-in-gops-favor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PBS<\/a>: &#8220;Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday he plans to call a special session in April for the Republican-dominated legislature to draw new congressional districts, joining a redistricting arms race among states that have redrawn districts mid-decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Even though Florida&#8217;s 2026 legislative session starts next week, DeSantis said he wanted to wait for a possible ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. The ruling in Louisiana v. Callais could determine whether Section 2, a part of the Voting Rights Act that bars discrimination in voting systems, is constitutional. The governor said &#8220;at least one or two&#8221; districts in Florida could be affected by the high court&#8217;s ruling&#8230;.Currently, 20 of Florida&#8217;s 28 congressional seats are held by Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Congressional districts in Florida that are redrawn to favor Republicans could carry big consequences for President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to reshape congressional districts in GOP-led states, which could give Republicans a shot at winning additional seats in the midterm elections and retaining control of the closely divided U.S. House.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS: &#8220;Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday he plans to call a special session in April for the Republican-dominated legislature to draw new congressional districts, joining a redistricting arms race among states that have redrawn districts mid-decade. Even though Florida&#8217;s 2026 legislative session starts next week, DeSantis said he wanted to wait for a possible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157952,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157951\/revisions\/157952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}