"Proposition 50, the measure redrawing California's congressional lines that's at the center of the Nov. 4 statewide special election, has been attacked by opponents as a power grab. That flips the responsibility for the nation's redistricting debacle on its head. Proposition 50 isn't an offensive move to usurp power. It's a defensive counter to try to protect our state from political emasculation."
"We have watched this year as the president and his administration have militarized our cities, used masked officers to round up both immigrants and U.S. citizens indiscriminately on our streets and in our courts, sent people to prisons in foreign countries without a semblance of due process, and threatened to revoke the citizenship of people born here. We have seen the administration weaponize the Justice Department to go after Trump's perceived enemies, use regulatory agencies, federal funding and data mining to try to stifle dissent."
Proposition 50 aims to redraw California's congressional lines to defend the state's political influence against partisan federal redistricting. The measure responds to a redistricting plan by President Trump and Texas Republican lawmakers intended to secure GOP control of the U.S. House. The initiative is framed as a defensive effort to preserve any check on the federal administration. The text lists numerous federal actions perceived as abuses of power, including militarized policing, immigration enforcement practices, DOJ weaponization, regulatory and data misuse to suppress dissent, and broader attacks on climate, public health, foreign aid, and international relations.
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