Surprise: Authors of DeSantis-forced congressional maps revealed as (illegal) partisan operatives

Another day, another report of Florida governor and dollar-store Trump impersonator Ron DeSantis flagrantly breaking the law. This one was uncovered by ProPublica, which is now finally able to shed some light on what happened last year when DeSantis threw a public fit over the Republican-held state legislature's proposed congressional maps, vetoing them and replacing them with his own heavily gerrymandered version.

It wasn't fully clear at the time just how DeSantis had come up with his map, one that produced 20 Republican-leaning districts to just eight Democratic ones and which erased Black Democrat Al Lawson's northern Florida district, redistributing his 46% Black district among four majority-white ones. The answer, reports ProPublica, is that DeSantis hired on a team of national Republican consultants notorious for Republican gerrymanders in other states.