DeSantis vetoes congressional maps, sets special session for April

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis made good on his promise to veto the GOP Legislature’s congressional redistricting map Tuesday because it doesn’t eliminate a “racially gerrymandered” Black district in North Florida. DeSantis then called a special session for April 19-22 “for the sole purpose” of working out the issue of the congressional maps, giving lawmakers a seven-page legal analysis arguing that their plan is unconstitutional because it created an unlawful district using race as the sole basis for it. The Legislature, “in their understandable zeal to conform to try to apply what the...