Hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom's Election Rigging Act passed (and while they're still counting ballots) the California Republican Party and 19 individual plaintiffs filed suit against Newsom and Secretary of State Shirley Weber to invalidate the Proposition 50 maps, claiming that they violate the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution because they were drawn "based on race, specifically to favor Hispanic voters, without cause or evidence to justify it."
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The suit was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and Plaintiffs are seeking a temporary injunction to restrict the state from using the maps as the full case winds its way through the courts. Attorney Mark Meuser of the Dhillon Law Group said at a morning press conference that he anticipates the injunction will be heard in the next few weeks, and that whichever side loses that issue will likely be able to appeal directly to the Supreme Court, but that a decision would need to be made before December 19, the date on which candidates can pull papers.
The Dhillon Law Group, Assemblyman David Tangipa, 18 California Voters, and the California Republican Party File Federal Lawsuit Challenging Prop 50 https://t.co/ZEi5R2OXSc
— California Republican Party (@CAGOP) November 5, 2025
Democrats in the California legislature and the man paid by the DCCC to draw the maps have all publicly stated that the Prop 50 maps were drawn to "empower Latino voters to elect their candidates of choice," creating two new districts they characterized as Voting Rights Act districts but, according to Meuser, they did not follow the VRA's requirements for drawing race-based districts nor did they have any evidence that the current maps violated the VRA.
From the Complaint:
The consultant who drew the lines also explained that the first thing that he did when drawing the Proposition 50 map was to add a “Latino District” that the Independent Citizens [Commission] had previously eliminated and that he altered the lines of a district to make it a “Latino-influenced district” by ensuring its voting age population was “35 percent Latino.” While compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act (“VRA”) may justify race-based districting under current law notwithstanding the Equal Protection Clause, the Supreme Court requires states to prove that, among other things, they in fact adopted the new district lines based on evidence that a minority race usually could not elect its preferred candidates due to the concerted opposition of voters of a white majority race.
However, California’s Hispanic voters have successfully elected their preferred candidates to both state and federal office, without being thwarted by a racial majority voting as a bloc. This is unsurprising because Latinos are the most numerous demographic in the state and California voters nearly always vote based on their party affiliation, not their race.
The Legislature not only had no evidence that the existing Citizen Redistricting Commission’s 2021 maps violated the VRA and therefore racial gerrymandering was justified. But also, the consultant who drew the Proposition 50 map acknowledged two studies, one before and one after he drew the map, that confirmed the Commission’s map complied with the VRA.
Talking with @DavidTangipa, my lead plaintiff, about the lawsuit we filed today in Federal Court challenging Proposition 50 maps. pic.twitter.com/dxTBwNOWO6
— Mark Meuser (@MarkMeuser) November 5, 2025
Newsom's response to the suit was characteristically Newsom: arrogant and false.
Statement from Gov. Newsom’s office on CAGOP federal lawsuit against Prop 50:
— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) November 5, 2025
“Good luck, losers.” pic.twitter.com/j7FFdXNEPQ
Newsom clearly, and for good reason, feels untouchable. He's wrong, though, about the lawsuit having Harmeet Dhillon's name on it. Yes, it's the Dhillon Law Group, which she founded, but she left the firm to join Trump's Department of Justice, which may well also become involved in this issue, but isn't at this time. And while he has a decent track record of beating legal challenges to his dictates in state court, his track record in federal court, especially against Dhillon Law, or the Center for American Liberty, which Dhillon also founded, isn't great. This thread highlights a few of his losses for engaging in unconstitutional governmental action.
Hi there! Happy to help with this one! It's going to be a thread through memory lane for those spinsters with short term memory loss. Here's a refresher for @GovPressOffice:
— Center for American Liberty (@Liberty_Ctr) July 9, 2025
1st: TANDON v. NEWSOM - landmark case, Newsom lost at SCOTUS for violating 1A.https://t.co/62NO5IyMMV
Read the full Complaint below.
CAGOP Lawsuit Challenging Prop 50 by Jennifer Van Laar
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Los Angeles County Republican Party Chair Roxanne Hoge (also known as the better half of one of RedState's editors, Bob Hoge) appeared on CBS Los Angeles Tuesday night to discuss the fate of Prop 50 alongside Sara Sadhwani, chair of the California Citizens' Redistricting Commission and longtime lefty activist (we delved into her background here and her unethical actions here). Sadhwani was characteristically completely deranged in her comments about President Trump and Proposition 50, but Roxanne did us proud in how she dealt with her. To me, it looked like Sadhwani was upset that she couldn't just scream and yell, "Racist!" at Roxanne to end the debate, since they were on live television. A highlight reel of Roxanne's facial expressions would be priceless. Just sayin'.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Dhillon Law Group represented Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar in a defamation lawsuit filed by former Rep. Katie Hill.)
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