Reid Wilson for The Hill:

The legislature approved a map earlier this year that would have kept most districts largely the way they have existed in recent elections. A new district awarded to Florida after the decennial redistricting process would have favored Republicans.

But DeSantis vetoed that map, objecting to a majority-Black district that stretches along the Florida-Georgia border from Tallahassee to Jacksonville. DeSantis said that seat, currently held by Rep. Al Lawson (D), is unconstitutional.

Ryan Newman, DeSantis’s general counsel, had offered an earlier draft of a potential map that would have eliminated Lawson’s district.

Democrats and good government groups slammed the move as an abdication of legislative authority after lawmakers had approved two separate versions of their own maps….

Any Republican-backed plan is almost certain to be challenged before Florida’s Supreme Court, which has ruled in recent years in favor of a Fair Maps ballot measure passed last decade that limits the degree of gerrymandering that can take place in the redistricting process.

But Republicans hope for a more favorable court this year. Three of the seven justices are DeSantis appointees, and all seven justices were appointed by Republican governors.