“California’s redistricting scheme is a brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the democratic process,” Attorney General Pam Bondisaid in an emailed statement. “Governor Newsom’s attempt to entrench one-party rule and silence millions of Californians will not stand.”

Every accusation is an admission. But this one is just so flagrant.

So they're going to sue Texas then, right?...right???

All jokes aside, this will immediately get tossed because Texas did this exact same thing FIRST, and without a populous vote. There is no legal standing for this whatsoever, aside from trying to play the DEI card, which of course they will, but it will fail.

It’s journalistic malpractice that the title of this article suggests the California referendum will be what tips control of Congress. Congress is tipped, the California referendum only seeks to right it.

they suing texas?

The people of California apparently voted for it on the ballot. Seems good to me.

Pam bondi... God I pray a brick falls on her head one day.

They've already tanked their own case, by not saying anything about any of the Republican states that are currently doing the same thing. This is selective prosecution.

Race cannot be used as a proxy to advance political interests, but that is precisely what the California General Assembly did with Proposition 50 — the recent ballot initiative that junked California’s pre-existing electoral map in favor of a rush-job rejiggering of California’s congressional district lines

They’re going to try to prove this lie, despite CA saying that this was purely about political party power, not race. And the SCOTUS already said that horseshit is perfectly fine.

Is there actually a plan to get a ruling without precluding all their gerrymandering power grabs? Or are they just going by the seat of their pants?

"How dare you level the playing field!" - Trump's DOJ

North Carolina hides

Y’all know the courts will find some way to either hold this up until after the midterms (after blocking CA’s map of course), or just bending over into themselves to say CA’s circumstance is different because (legal) reasons.