Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez (R) said on Thursday he will form a redistricting committee as Republican-led states across the country move to redraw their congressional lines ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

“Exploring these questions now, at the middecade point, would potentially allow us to seek legal guidance from our supreme court without the uncertainty associated with deferring those questions until after the next decennial census and reapportionment,” Perez wrote in a memo to state House members, referring to a recent Florida Supreme Court decision on the state’s congressional map.

“We will focus our inquiry on the congressional map, which was the subject of the recent Florida Supreme Court case, and any relevant legal questions. To that end, I am creating a Select Committee on Redistricting,” he continued.

Perez added that the committee’s members would be announced in September, but he did not provide a specific timeline for carrying out the redistricting process.

The Florida Democratic Party called Perez’s move “corruption, plain and simple” in a statement following the memo’s release.