N.Y. Times offers this summary of the 2022 redistricting cycle. Key points:
- Litigation over congressional maps continues, but it is unlikely to change the maps before November.
- This redistricting cycle “has created a much less competitive House map than before.”
- The Democrats may “have come out of the map-drawing battles in slightly better shape than before they began,” but it is debatable and the political winds do not favor their capturing that advantage.
- Florida’s new map “dismantles a congressional district held by Representative Al Lawson, a Black Democrat, and strongly boosts Republican odds of capturing other competitive House seats,” and may or may not violate the State’s constitution. A lower court held it did.