{"id":22296,"date":"2026-05-05T17:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/new-florida-congressional-map-faces-first-challenge\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:22:16","slug":"new-florida-congressional-map-faces-first-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/new-florida-congressional-map-faces-first-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"New Florida congressional map faces first challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A civil rights group filed suit Monday challenging Florida&rsquo;s new congressional map, just hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed it into law.  In a 71-page complaint filed in the Sunshine State&rsquo;s Second Judicial Circuit, the Equal Ground Education Fund and 19 Floridians allege that the governor and state Legislature violated the Florida Constitution in&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5863901-florida-congressional-map-ron-desantis-lawsuit\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A civil rights group filed suit Monday challenging Florida&rsquo;s new congressional map, just hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed it into law. In a 71-page complaint filed in the Sunshine State&rsquo;s Second Judicial Circuit, the Equal Ground Education Fund and 19 Floridians allege that the governor and state Legislature violated the Florida Constitution in&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}