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Matthew Cooke
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My new one @slate.com with @cooke-m.bsky.social: "Republicans Are Suing to Kill California’s Pro-Democratic Gerrymander. They Have a Huge Problem." slate.com/news-and-pol...
California Republicans, now joined by the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, have sued California in federal court to stop implementation of Proposition 50, a voter-passed ballot measure that creates a Democratic gerrymander of the state’s congressional districts, adding up to five more Democratic seats. The lawsuit argues that the Legislature had an unconstitutional race-focused intent on the state’s Latino voters when it passed the maps. In fact, whatever the Legislature intended should be irrelevant to the Republicans’ claim, and they likely will lose because California voters were acting with a predominantly political, not racial, intent. If Republicans lose the Prop 50 lawsuit and the United States Supreme Court does not interfere with a new federal district court ruling putting Texas’ new gerrymander on hold for 2026, Democrats could have an advantage going into 2026, even as the Supreme Court contemplates even more changes in redistricting rules in its pending case out of Louisiana.
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM