Gavin Newsom attends a Yes on Proposition 50 rally at the Los Angeles Convention Center in November. Legal experts say the odds are against Republicans getting the Supreme Court to block California’s new congressional districts. But the Supreme Court indicated it viewed the redrawing as motivated primarily by partisan politics, not race. “I think that the outcome ... is we have an election under the lines that were passed in Proposition 50. In 2019, the Supreme Court ruled that complaints of partisan gerrymandering have no path in federal court.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 14, 2026 21:32 UTC