Overview
- Lawmakers plan to return to Tallahassee next week expecting a governor-drafted proposal, though no maps have been released and normal public hearings have not begun.
- A lawsuit led by Democratic attorney Marc Elias argues the governor exceeded his authority by convening and steering the session on congressional lines.
- Eric Holder and voting-rights groups are mobilizing protests and preparing legal challenges, warning the plan could add up to five Republican seats.
- Some Republicans caution the rewrite could backfire by thinning GOP votes in Miami and Tampa, which could endanger Reps. Carlos Gimenez, Maria Salazar, Laurel Lee, and Anna Paulina Luna.
- The fight is the latest front in a national mid-decade push encouraged by President Trump, with Florida seen as a final major test that could face swift lawsuits and uncertain timing.