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Meanwhile, Florida Republican lawmakers on Wednesday moved quickly to approve a new congressional map submitted by Ron DeSantis just two days earlier, even as legislators were still reviewing the Supreme Court’s Wednesday ruling. The state Senate briefly delayed proceedings to study the decision, with several senators seen reading it on their laptops.

The map was ultimately approved largely along party lines, though a small number of Republican state senators voted against it. Democrats argued the map was unlawful because it conflicted with Florida’s voter-approved anti-gerrymandering standards, while some Republicans said they were persuaded by legal arguments from DeSantis attorneys that those requirements no longer had to be followed, Politico reported.

“I don’t think we should do gerrymandering on the basis of political partisanship, and I don’t think there’s evidence this map does this,” countered state Sen. Don Gaetz, a Crestview Republican and one of the sponsors, Politico noted.