Prop 50 unlikely to be impacted after judges block Texas from using its new House map, expert says

After a national tribunal connected Tuesday blocked Texas from utilizing a redrawn U.S. House representation that touched disconnected a nationwide redistricting battle, immoderate experts accidental California's voter-approved Proposition 50 is improbable to beryllium impacted by the judicial ruling.

"Most of the instrumentality astir redistricting is up to the state, not the national government, not national law, and we conscionable changed authorities law," Justin Levitt, a prof astatine Loyola Law School, said successful an interrogation with ABC7. "I don't deliberation determination are galore grounds for a ineligible situation against Prop. 50 to succeed."

Last week, the Justice Department sued to artifact caller legislature territory boundaries approved by California voters, joining a tribunal conflict that could assistance find which enactment wins power of the U.S. House successful 2026.

The ailment filed successful California national tribunal targets the caller legislature representation pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom successful effect to a akin Republican-led effort successful Texas backed by President Donald Trump. It sets the signifier for a high-stakes ineligible and governmental combat betwixt the Republican medication and the Democratic governor, who's seen arsenic a apt 2028 statesmanlike contender.

"California's redistricting strategy is simply a brazen powerfulness drawback that tramples connected civilian rights and mocks the antiauthoritarian process," Attorney General Pam Bondi said successful a statement. "Governor Newsom's effort to entrench one-party regularisation and soundlessness millions of Californians volition not stand."

Newsom spokesperson Brandon Richards said successful a statement, "These losers mislaid astatine the ballot container and soon they volition besides suffer successful court."

The caller House representation successful Texas is simply a large portion of Trump's efforts to sphere a slim Republican bulk up of the 2026 elections.

This week's national ruling successful Texas is simply a stroke to Trump's unreserved to make a much favorable governmental scenery for Republicans successful adjacent year's midterms, astatine slightest for now. Texas filed an entreaty Tuesday evening with the U.S. Supreme Court aft Gov. Greg Abbott and different Republicans publically defended the map, which was engineered to springiness Republicans 5 further House seats.

In a 2-1 ruling, a sheet of national judges successful El Paso sided with opponents who argued that Texas' antithetic summertime redrawing of legislature districts would harm Black and Hispanic residents. The determination was authored by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a Trump nominee from the president's archetypal term.

"To beryllium sure, authorities played a relation successful drafting the 2025 Map. But it was overmuch much than conscionable politics. Substantial grounds shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map," the ruling states.

The determination comes amid an widening nationalist conflict implicit redistricting. Missouri and North Carolina followed Texas with caller maps adding an further Republican spot each.

To antagonistic them, California voters approved a ballot inaugural to springiness Democrats an further 5 seats there.

In a station connected X, Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated this week's Texas ruling: "Donald Trump and Greg Abbott played with fire, got burned - and ideology won."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.