California Republicans on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging a high-stakes redistricting measure with five congressional seats for Democrats.
The measure, proposition 50, was approved by voters on Tuesday night, in a decisive victory for the Democrats. The plan temporarily gives the power to draw congressional districts to the California legislature, allowing it to adopt maps that will help Democrats pick up five seats in the US House of Representatives.
The plan is a direct response to Gerrymandering in Texas, where Republicans, at the height of the US president carved out many new Republican districts.
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