In California Redistricting Challenge, GOP Alleges Illegal Racial Gerrymander
Republicans and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued in federal court this week that California’s new redistricting plan constitutes an illegal racial gerrymander — and not a legal partisan one, like Democrats claim.
During the three-day hearing, Republicans deployed many of the same arguments they had faced amid legal wrangling over Texas’ GOP gerrymander — namely, that the new congressional maps favored certain racial groups over others.
This summer, President Donald Trump sparked a national redistricting arms race when he convinced Texas lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional map to give the GOP an edge in the 2026 midterm elections.
In November, California voters responded by overwhelmingly approving Proposition 50, a ballot initiative greenlighting Democratic lawmakers’ plan to offset the GOP’s potential gains in Texas by drawing the same number of new Democrat-leaning seats in California.
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