The Supreme Court's conservative majority has been systematically dismantling the Voting Rights Act for years.
Now Ron DeSantis just told you exactly what comes next – and he named the Justice doing it.
He said Florida is moving forward whether the ruling comes or not.
DeSantis Names Alito as the Justice Writing the Voting Rights Act Opinion
Democrats spent decades weaponizing the Voting Rights Act to lock in congressional seats they never could have won otherwise.
That weapon is about to be taken away – and Ron DeSantis just told you who's taking it.
Standing at a Tampa press conference Monday, DeSantis named the Justice he believes is authoring the opinion that ends the game.
"I think Justice Alito is writing the opinion," DeSantis said, referring to Louisiana v. Callais – the pending Supreme Court case that could gut Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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He wasn't guessing.
DeSantis said the outcome isn't really in question: "I don't think there's much of a dispute about that."
The left immediately went into meltdown mode.
John Bisognano, president of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, fired off a post on social media: "Is this a sitting US Republican Governor saying that he has INSIDE information from a Supreme Court Justice about a case before the court?"
What Bisognano didn't mention is that legal scholars across the board have reached the same conclusion.
SCOTUSblog noted in March that Alito is one of only two justices who hasn't yet issued a majority opinion from the October session when Callais was argued – and that he has authored every major VRA-limiting decision the court has handed down over the past decade.
This isn't inside information. It's math.
What the Florida Congressional Map Could Look Like After Louisiana v. Callais
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is the legal hook Democrats have used for decades to force states to draw congressional districts that guarantee minority-majority representation.
Two of those districts sit in South Florida right now – held by Democrats Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and Frederica Wilson.
If the Supreme Court strikes down or severely limits Section 2, those seats become legally vulnerable.
DeSantis made clear Monday the special session runs April 20 through 24 – before any Supreme Court ruling arrives – and that he's fine with that.
"I think that's appropriate whether the decision comes before we do it or after," he said.
Florida has added more new residents than any other state since 2020 – an 8.24% population increase in just four years, according to the U.S. Census – and that's the official justification: the maps don't reflect the Florida that actually exists today.
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The Florida Supreme Court, stacked with DeSantis appointees, already upheld his 2022 congressional map over anti-gerrymandering objections. Any new Democratic lawsuit lands in that same courtroom.
How Florida Mid-Decade Redistricting Locks In the House Majority for 2026
Donald Trump launched this redistricting war last summer with a simple calculation.
Republicans hold a razor-thin 217 to 214 majority in the House.
Democrats need just three seats to flip the chamber in 2026.
Trump called on red states to act before Democrats could ride any wave election back to power.
Texas answered first – and the Supreme Court let that map stand late last year.
Now Florida is moving.
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Legal analysts believe a new Florida map could deliver Republicans up to five additional House seats – and red states that have already redrawn maps in Texas, Missouri, and North Carolina expect to net up to nine additional Republican seats combined.
Florida alone could match that number.
The party that spent 60 years using the Voting Rights Act as a political instrument built a system that only works as long as the law holds.
Alito is writing the opinion that ends it.
DeSantis is drawing the map that replaces it.
And Democrats who spent decades calling every Republican redistricting effort a threat to democracy just watched their own blue states – California, Virginia – sprint into the same arms race the moment it stopped working in their favor.
Sources:
- Mitch Perry, "DeSantis plays down lack of Supreme Court opinion in justifying congressional redistricting effort," Florida Phoenix, April 6, 2026.
- A.G. Gancarski, "Ron DeSantis says Samuel Alito writing opinion in case that will drive congressional redistricting," Florida Politics, April 6, 2026.
- "Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Special Legislative Session on Congressional Redistricting," Executive Office of the Governor, January 7, 2026.
- Jane C. Timm, "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis calls April special session on redistricting," Fox News, January 8, 2026.
- Carolyn Shapiro, "Is Justice Alito jumping the gun on voting rights?" SCOTUSblog, March 13, 2026.
- "Florida Redistricting 2026: DeSantis Calls Special Session," MultiState, April 6, 2026.
