00:00Lawmakers in Florida approved a new congressional map that would, in theory, net Republicans four
00:04additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The vote passed Florida's
00:08House 83 to 28 along party lines. Mere hours later, the state's Senate passed it, sending the
00:13map back to Governor DeSantis for signature on the map, which he proposed. Once DeSantis signs
00:18off, Florida will become the latest state to alter their map in a kind of tit-for-tat
00:22gerrymandering war between Republicans and Democrats jockeying for advantage in this
00:27November's midterm elections. Virginia passed a Democrat-favored map last week, but that one is
00:32still winding its way through the courts. Texas changed theirs, and after litigation, the Supreme
00:37Court ruled it could be used this year. California, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio all tweaked
00:44their maps as well. The map in Utah has been updated due to litigation on the issue. Down in
00:49Georgia, a new map was also created, but that one still winding its way through the courts.
00:53And Louisiana Republicans got a big win on Wednesday when the Supreme Court ruled that
00:57their current map with two deep blue districts is unconstitutional. Not to put too fine a point on
01:04this, but it looks to me like lawmakers on both sides here are trying to rewrite the rules rather
01:09than, I don't know, campaigning on the issues, but maybe that's me.
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