Aaron Blake for The Fix:

Indeed, the rules weren’t really legally tested until this year, when a judge last month ruled that two of them needed to be redrawn because they were drawn for partisan purposes. The GOP-controlled state legislature approved a new new map this week, with very minimal changes. According to numbers crunched by redistricting expert Michael McDonald of the University of Florida, only seven districts underwent changes in the redrawn map. Two heavily Democratic districts became about two points less Democratic, while two GOP-leaning seats became less than a point more Democratic. Neither of those latter two districts is in play this November.

The new map now awaits Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) signature and will be reviewed by the judge who struck down the original map.

If it passes muster with the courts in anything like its present form, it will have been a pretty major victory for the GOP in overcoming the so-called Fair Districts amendments — and an equally large setback for redistricting reformers seeking to rein in partisan gerrymandering.

That’s because the new map, practically speaking, isn’t a whole lot different than the old, pre-reform map.