Proposition 50 Passed But a Lawsuit Was Filed This Morning

The full text of the initiative was available by a link on the Voter Information Guide webpage but the summary did not define how the lines were drawn, why they needed to be drawn, nor who drew them.  California 2025 Statewide Special Election Voter Information Guide - Text of Proposed Law

"A YES vote on this measure means: The state would use new, legislatively drawn congressional district maps starting in 2026. California’s new maps would be used until the California Citizens Redistricting Commission draws new maps following the 2030 U.S. Census."

There is no mention, in the initiative, Prop 50, summary or guide of a need to redraw district lines based on race but instead the proposed amendment to Article XXI of the California Constitution includes these reasons:

(l) The 2026 United States midterm elections for Congress must be conducted on a level playing field without an extreme and unfair advantage for Republicans.

(n) It is the intent of the people that California’s temporary maps be designed to neutralize the partisan gerrymandering being threatened by Republican-led states without eroding fair representation for all communities.

However, the lawsuit filed by Dhillon Law Group contends, revealed, and stated 

• The consultant who drew the lines also explained
  • First thing that he did when drawing the Proposition 50 map was to add a “Latino District” that the Independent Citizens District had previously eliminated
  • He altered the lines of a district to make it a “Latino influenced district” by ensuring its voting age population was “35 percent Latino.”

• Details about the new congressional district lines based on race
  • The California Legislature issued a press release announcing that Proposition 50 creates two new districts to “empower Latino voters to elect their candidates of choice,” adding them to the pre-existing fourteen such districts.
  • "The Legislature characterized these sixteen districts as “Voting Rights Act districts,” meaning districts that are specifically designed to favor one race or ethnicity of voters."
  • While compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act (“VRA”) may justify race-based
    districting under current law notwithstanding the Equal Protection Clause, Cooper v. Harris, 581 U.S. 285, 285, 292 & 301, 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.

The lawsuit filed by Dhillon Law Group included nineteen California residents and the California Republican Party as plaintiffs and further states: 20251105_Doc_1_Complaint.pdf

• Challenges the constitutionality of California’s congressional district maps that will be implemented following the passage of Proposition 50. 
• Asserts the California Legislature violated the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution when it drew new congressional district lines based on race, specifically to favor Hispanic voters, without cause or evidence to justify it

According to the California Secretary of State website, with ( 18,399 of 18,399 ) precincts partially
reporting as of November 5, 2025, 3:55 p.m. the statewide results were:

Yes: 5,291,807 (63.9%)
No: 2,988,275 (36.1%)

Los Angeles County
Yes: 1,509,870 (73.3%)
No: 551,094 (26.7%)

Ventura County

Yes: 125,520 (61.7%)
No: 77,872 (38.3%)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71875910/parties/david-tangipa-v-gavin-newsom/

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