"The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that California this fall may use its new election map, which is expected to send five more Democrats to Congress. With no dissents, the justices rejected emergency appeals from California Republicans and President Trump's lawyers, who claimed the map was a racial gerrymander to benefit Latinos, not a partisan effort to bolster Democrats. Trump's lawyers supported the California Republicans and filed a Supreme Court brief asserting that "California's recent redistricting is tainted by an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.""
"In response, the state's attorneys told the court the GOP claims defied the public's understanding of the mid-decade redistricting and contradicted the facts regarding the racial and ethnic makeup of the districts. Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed re-drawing the state's 52 congressional districts to "fight back against Trump's power grab in Texas." He said that if Texas was going to redraw its districts to benefit Republicans so as to keep control of the House of Representatives, California should do the same to benefit Democrats."
California will use a new congressional map this fall after the Supreme Court rejected emergency appeals challenging the redistricting. The Court issued the decision unanimously, denying claims from California Republicans and lawyers for President Trump that the map constituted an unconstitutional racial gerrymander intended to favor Latino candidates rather than a partisan Democratic advantage. California attorneys countered that the redistricting did not increase Latino-majority districts and that the average Latino share of the voting-age population declined in the existing Latino-majority districts. Governor Gavin Newsom advocated the mid-decade redraw to counter Texas's Republican-favoring redistricting, and voters approved the change via Proposition 50.
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