(AURN News) — After California redrew its political map and five Republican seats appeared poised to flip, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit.
The Justice Department is now challenging the map in a lawsuit.
Today, the DOJ moved to stop Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new congressional map — a map voters approved under Proposition 50 — arguing that the state relied on race in a way that violates the 14th Amendment.
Federal lawyers say the Legislature elevated Latino demographics above every other factor when shaping districts, calling it a constitutional overreach, and they accuse California of trying to engineer Democratic gains in a year when control of the U.S. House could swing by just a handful of seats.
Now, the real backdrop is that the fight didn’t start in Sacramento.
It began in Texas, where Republicans reworked districts to secure five seats of their own.
California answered with Proposition 50, and now the Trump administration says the state crossed a legal line by using race as a shortcut to protect its political interests.
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