Trump administration sues to stop California from redistricting to give Democrats more House seats
Source: CNN Politics
PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2025, 2:48 PM ET
The Trump administration moved Thursday to challenge Californias effort to redraw the states congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, throwing the full weight of the Justice Department in the high-stakes battle over control the House of Representatives next year.
After voters in the Golden State approved a ballot measure last week that allows state Democratic lawmakers to replace congressional lines drawn by the states independent commission with new ones that make five US House seats more favorable for Democrats, the California Republican Party and others raced to court to block the redistricting effort.
The administrations involvement is a dramatic escalation in the legal challenge, which, if successful, could scramble Democrats plan to push back against a nationwide effort by Republicans, at the behest of President Donald Trump, to boost the partys chance of holding on to their House majority through rare, mid-decade redistricting ploys across several states.
Lawyers for the Trump administration told the federal judge overseeing the case in the Central District of California on Thursday that days after the case was brought last week, the federal interest in the matter became clear given the constitutional issues at stake in the challenge.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/politics/california-trump-redistricting-lawsuit
But TX's power grab without voter approval, per your order, was "okay".
Fiendish Thingy
(21,517 posts)WmChris
(503 posts)That should nullify the repukes redistricting as well.
Fiendish Thingy
(21,517 posts)bluestarone
(20,768 posts)For both parties! THIS court is for one party, the REPUBLICONS!
twodogsbarking
(16,704 posts)That's because they were trying to do their job. Not really sure WTF Reagan was doing though.
rurallib
(64,407 posts)twodogsbarking
(16,704 posts)ificandream
(11,548 posts)Initech
(106,895 posts)hlthe2b
(112,118 posts)jgmiller
(661 posts)bromeando
(148 posts)Okay for Texas but not for California?
MLWR
(669 posts)How does the orange obscenity have standing?
C Moon
(13,326 posts)Javaman
(64,904 posts)At least California put the vote to the citizens.
here in texas I didn't get a chance to vote on shit.
Wounded Bear
(63,503 posts)That's the basis of the California lawsuit.
rubbersole
(10,876 posts)Every two years you get a chance to vote on mountains of shit. Repubs on your ballots qualify.
(With apologies to shit everywhere.)
Javaman
(64,904 posts)BaronChocula
(3,757 posts)Where does it say anything about redistricting in the Constitution?
Wounded Bear
(63,503 posts)BaronChocula
(3,757 posts)They're claiming Prop 50 is race-based and a constitutional (federal) violation - an argument with as many holes as any other court filing by the rapist.
So I guess we both learned something new.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1417291/dl?inline=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Buddyzbuddy
(1,901 posts)lees1975
(6,844 posts)Suing to make one state stop what you have already asked another state to do.
ChicagoTeamster
(164 posts)BumRushDaShow
(163,279 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(164 posts)BumRushDaShow
(163,279 posts)since "Hispanic" isn't a "race" but a language group.
But as I have posted many times, everything they do is their faux outrage over "race" due to their imposition of a system of racism/white supremacy and ethnic cleansing.
walkingman
(10,096 posts)He is a perfect example of why so many people push for "tort reform". He is a crooked motherfucker and has no ethics or morals. That is why it is so astonishing that the White Bible thumpers seem to worship him. Tells me a lot about them and their religion.
Mblaze
(881 posts)With approval of the Legislature and the Governor.
California state law does not. That's why Newsom developed a citizen's initiative to temporarily suspend that restriction. I suspect the Trump administration will contend that the initiative was illegal or invalid.
cstanleytech
(28,044 posts)Mblaze
(881 posts)And it does allow for gerrymandering between censuses but requires approval from the citizens, thus Prop. 50.
Texas only required Legislative approval and the Governor's signature.
I'm not sure how the DOJ can prevail.
cstanleytech
(28,044 posts)Orrex
(66,381 posts)CarolinaNC
(134 posts)COL Mustard
(7,796 posts)Republicans. That way we can worship His Highness King Donald the Perverted and not have to shower every time we say his name.
(Of course this is sarcasm, if it's needed.)
Historic NY
(39,474 posts)are they
jgmiller
(661 posts)so they can't argue it violates the CA constitution which prevents mid-census redistricting. I mean they can try to argue it but it would fail because the citizens voted it in and in CA the citizens are allowed to ammend the constitution.
What they are arguing is that it is racially biased redistricting which means that they are trying to give SCOTUS a reason to rule in favor of Lousiana in their redistricting battle that was ordered to comply with the Voting Rights Act. In that case they are claiming the redemy itself violates the law against racial redistricting. The difference is that in Lousiana's case the remedy is actually intended to be racially biased and in CA's case it's not and instead intended to be politically biased. The thing is if you look at the new map it's going to be very hard to prove that, CA is approximately 39% Latino and many of the new districts that are tilted to Dems have a % of Latino population under 39% and the ones that are over were alredy Dem districts.
I seriously doubt a group as smart and Newsom's is going to do something as reckless and obvious as what Texas did. They thought this through and proving racial biased is going to be incredibly difficult.
question everything
(51,394 posts)YoshidaYui
(44,714 posts)and hopes a judge will find him in favor, not this time BUCKO your ass has nothing to gain from this legal maneuver.
Playingmantis
(501 posts)Attorney General Pam Bondi cast Californias plan as a brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the democratic process.
I am out of words for her brazen bullshit!
Initech
(106,895 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(9,506 posts)Do they really want all of this under oath, and on the record? (Not that they would honor such a thing. Most of them don't even understand what that is.)
Do they want their Dear Leader to take the stand, because they could certainly call for him!
Time for some popcorn.