Florida Senate President Ben Albritton said Monday that he would prefer to wait to decide about a mid-decade congressional redistricting until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a Voting Rights Act case sometime next year.

That would contradict the timetable for congressional redistricting set last week by a select committee in the Florida House and put the upper chamber in synch with Gov. Ron DeSantis, who said last week that he wants the Legislature to act during a special legislative session sometime after the regular session ends next year on March 13.

“What the governor has suggested is that we wait until the spring to redistrict,” Albritton said in a sit-down meeting with reporters who cover the Capitol. “He has his various reasons why we wait until the spring. I don’t have

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