A panel of three federal judges has blocked Texas from using a new congressional map that Republicans drew in hopes of picking up five U.S. House seats.
Authorizes Temporary Changes to Congressional District Maps in Response to Texas’ Partisan Redistricting. Legislative Constitutional Amendment
There is no trigger tied to any action by the Texas redistricting committee. However, prior to Democrats putting the amendment on the California ballot…
On August 11, 2025, Newsom sent a letter to Donald Trump, stating that California would pause any mid-decade redistricting effort if other states called off their efforts. Two days later, Newsom announced that the deadline had passed and he would move forward with his own redistricting effort.
Now that the law has passed with overwhelming support (64/35 on final count), the map that was drafted by the independent bipartisan California Citizens Redistricting Commission is in effect going into 2026. This court decision has no effect on the California ballot amendment results or the enforcement of the new maps.
Yes. CA is basically responding to neutralize Texas. Ditto with this case. The GOP is trying to sue to top CA’s neutralization effort, and they’re claiming that CA’s very political gerrymander is secretly racist. In response, Dems are basically issuing the exact same racial gerrymander case in TX.
The one big difference is that CA’s voters are on record for supporting this. TX politicians are doing this without the consent of the people.
That language was removed, but you’re right it was there initially. I think they removed the language to be able to respond if several other states combined also redistricted.
Isn’t California’s map dependent on the Texas one going into effect? That was the original wording at least back when it was first introduced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_California_Proposition_50
The specific text of the Proposition is
There is no trigger tied to any action by the Texas redistricting committee. However, prior to Democrats putting the amendment on the California ballot…
Now that the law has passed with overwhelming support (64/35 on final count), the map that was drafted by the independent bipartisan California Citizens Redistricting Commission is in effect going into 2026. This court decision has no effect on the California ballot amendment results or the enforcement of the new maps.
Yes. CA is basically responding to neutralize Texas. Ditto with this case. The GOP is trying to sue to top CA’s neutralization effort, and they’re claiming that CA’s very political gerrymander is secretly racist. In response, Dems are basically issuing the exact same racial gerrymander case in TX.
The one big difference is that CA’s voters are on record for supporting this. TX politicians are doing this without the consent of the people.
That language was removed, but you’re right it was there initially. I think they removed the language to be able to respond if several other states combined also redistricted.
The verbiage in prop 50 that limited action based on Texas outcomes of implementing their maps was removed before Newsom’s signature.
For now, at least, California’s actions will continue to move forward.
I’d say don’t count Texas out yet.