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supreme court justices on Monday questioned whether the state’s [Democratic](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats)-led legislature complied with constitutional requirements when it sent a congressional redistricting plan to voters, in a case that carries high stakes
plan could face legal challenges. Critics have questioned the ballot wording and the process used by lawmakers. The Virginia Supreme Court has allowed the vote to go ahead while reviewing those concerns. If it later
supreme court [ruled in February](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/california-new-voting-maps-supreme-court) to reject a Republican challenge. If approved by the Florida legislature’s Republican majority, DeSantis’s new maps will, subject to legal challenges, be adopted in time
redistricting for explicitly partisan purposes. DeSantis and his aides believe those provisions will not be a legal barrier because they have been weakened previously by the [Florida](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida) supreme court and again
Republican-controlled state legislatures in the South to eliminate at least some House districts with sizable racial minority populations currently represented by Black Democrats and that were likely protected under the Supreme Court's previous
Plan during debate before its passage in the Florida Senate. **Mike Stewart/AP** Mike Stewart/AP TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida lawmakers have approved a new Congressional map that could position Republicans to win four additional U.S. House seats
plan went awry in the months that followed, when Indiana senate Republicans [refused to join](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/12/indiana-voting-map-republicans-trump) in the gerrymandering campaign, a bipartisan commission in Ohio enacted new maps that put Democratic incumbents
rules, the other follows, until courts or voters draw the final line.” ## Democrats gain – for now Trump has not been timid about his desire to redraw state congressional maps to benefit his Republican Party
Supreme Court, which [reserved the right to weigh in](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/how-virginias-top-court-might-decide-democrats-gerrymandering-fate-00777364) on the new map after the election, voids Democrats’ effort. “This close margin reinforces that Virginia is a purple state that shouldn