Strong dissent filed. Elections to Congress in California will not be competitive with Democrats having huge advantages if ruling holds.
The Three-Judge Federal panel sitting in Los Angeles filed its decision today, after some delay, on the Plaintiffs’ and U.S. Department of Justice’s Motion for a Preliminary Injunction to declare Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50’s highly partisan gerrymander of California’s Congressional districts unconstitutional because it referred to racial data in creating the lines. As some observers expected, the two Biden and Obama appointed judges concluded that eliminating the nonpartisan commission’s previous lines (which have allowed for 9 Republicans to be elected to California’s 52 Congressional seats by competitive format) was legal. The ruling will likely tank any competitive Congressional elections between Republicans and Democrats for the next three election cycles. (It will mean that voters in Norco in southern California, for example, who supported Trump by 72% of the vote, will be represented by Congresswoman Norma Torres, the first Guatemalan-born Member of Congress, who voted “No” on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act supported by Riley Gaines). This decision was made over a strong dissent by Ninth Circuit Judge Kenneth K. Lee, a Trump appointee and the only appellate judge on the panel.
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The majority decision covered some 70-pages and offered details about how various district lines were developed. The decision established a very high bar for the showing of evidence of racially-based gerrymandering, especially in District 13 in the Stockton area where Lodi as a city is divided into three different Congressional Districts, and states that the Plaintiffs failed to establish “serious questions going to the merits” despite this obvious example of a racial chop-up. On the Federal Voting Rights Act protections advanced by the Plaintiffs and the Department of Justice, to avert racial discrimination, including disenfranchising Asian and white voters, the Court devoted only four paragraphs to their Conclusion of consideration in their decision, simply saying they rejected evidence offered by the Plaintiffs that some racial groups were favored and others diminished by Proposition 50. Which would be illegal through another lens.
Click here to read the full article at James V. Lacy’s Substack
Best news a heard all day. I guess the midterms will be more fair then tRump imagined.
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So the party that supposedly is “saving democracy” does so by denying 40% of the state’s population representation?
YEP – ya got that correct!!! We are being DISINFRANCHISED!!!! What a CRAPPY state with a dishonest, corrupt, narcissistic governor!!!!!
This is what tRump started in the first place and not a peep from you about the people in Texas who will be disenfranchised or the 40% not being represented because it benefits you. Now the pathetic pdfile felon cult members are now “up in arms” because CA did the exact same thing donOLD did in Texas. The only difference here in CA is we held a vote and it passed whereas Texas was told to “cheat” on the upcoming elections by fatso.
You righties sure are an intelligent bunch that abides by the rules and gives everyone a fair chance – NOT
Get ready for that blue wave come November, things will change and maybe even that orange clown will be out on his stinky ass.
Don’t be a sore loser. The fact that President Trump is in office proves that the progressive/leftist Marxists don’t always win even if they do have to resort to cheating like Newsom’s meandering will do. The best revenge is when the Fraud team shows up and he has to account for all that he has pocketed for his run for presidency (won’t win because he can’t run CA), record proves that. Now he has to come up with BILLIONS of Federal funds stolen for his train to nowhere since 2008 1/4mile track started WOW, his homeless debacle, his inviting millions of unvetted illegal aliens to grab a DNC vote and to live off of our services they have not contributed a dime and of course his mismanagement of the fire deforestation and of lives lost in the Palisades, Altadena, not to mention his closing CA during covid all unnecessary and lastly chasing all professionals and big business to other more friendly states. This guy sucks but if you want to be more miserable try moving to NY and you can have a snatch at Mamdani’s dream to destroy another City, the classic COMMUNIST. Never held a job never will after this. One more thing that sickens me about Newsom he signed sanctuary status to CA without a vote, what an A-h@le. No one would have voted for this, so he did it with the old executive order. I have never seen one human being so responsible for DESTROYING WHAT ONCE WAS A BEAUTIFUL AND SUCCESSFUL ENVIRONMENT. CA looks more like we have been struck by a hydrogen bomb thanks to all of the awful leadership voted by YOU. Enjoy your deteriorating health care, you deserve it because you asked for it via your vote.