Federal court upholds California's new congressional districts in a victory for Democrats

In a major victory for Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democratic Party, a federal court in Los Angeles ruled Wednesday that California can use its newly configured congressional district boundaries for the 2026 midterm elections, increasing Democrats' odds of winning five additional U.S. House seats and seizing control of the chamber.

Attorneys for the GOP had sought to temporarily block California’s new map, arguing that the redrawn districts, placed on the ballot by the Democratic-led state Legislature as Proposition 50 last November, were unconstitutional because they illegally favored Latino voters.

But two judges in the three-judge panel rejected Republican arguments. The maps, they found, were engineered by Democrats to favor their party's candidates and counter similar partisan gerrymandering from Texas and other GOP-led states.

"The evidence presented reflects that Proposition 50 was exactly what it was billed as: a political gerrymander designed to flip five Republican-held seats to the Democrats," District Judge Josephine L. Staton wrote in an opinion.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/federal-court-upholds-californias-congressional-212828875.html

Tough luck Donny boy