The Florida House passed a new congressional map hours after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, potentially delivering four additional Republican House seats in 2026. The timing was striking because DeSantis' redistricting plan had clearly been built around the expected ruling despite being advanced before the decision was issued. The move is part of a broader national redistricting push by Republicans — Trump called for GOP-led states to redraw maps in his favor last year, and this ruling removes a major legal barrier to racial gerrymandering. The map violates Florida's own voter-approved constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering, though the state doesn't require voter approval to redistrict.