Wednesday, November 05, 2025

California GOP Sue After Voters Approve Prop 50

California state Republicans have taken legal action after voters on Tuesday approved Democratic-drawn maps for the next three elections ...

Posted by Nixon at 02:32 PM | 27 COMMENTS | permalink

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Now that's rich. All gerrymandering is anti-Democratic, in my view, and SCOTUS really blew it in Rucho by permitting it, but GOP lawsuit to block it in California while using it in other states is the height of hypocrisy. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u ...

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-- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) Nov 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM

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... California state Republicans have taken legal action after voters on Tuesday approved Democratic-drawn maps for the next three elections, alleging intentional redistricting to favor Latino and Hispanic voters in the way the now-approved districts were redone. ...

The Republicans started this redistricting push, and now they are whining because their own tactics are being used against them?

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-05 02:34 PM

... alleging intentional redistricting to favor Latino and Hispanic voters in the way the now-approved districts were redone. ... ...

Republicans prefer this method of suppressing those who usually do not vote for them ...


U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org

...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."

The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."

The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....

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#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-05 02:46 PM

Yeah, well, ---- off losers.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-05 03:15 PM

You want to sue about a VOTER APPROVED referendum, overturning the voters wishes.

Good luck with that.

#4 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-11-05 03:28 PM

California does that all the time.

#5 | Posted by phinphan at 2025-11-05 03:31 PM

#5 | Posted by phinphan

Is that why you didn't provide even one example?

#6 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-11-05 03:53 PM

@#4 ... overturning the voters wishes. ...

Republicans have shown that they want the GOP politicians to choose the voters, instead of having voters choose the politicians.


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-05 04:18 PM

Good luck with that.

#4 | Posted by fresno500

With Trump controlling the SCOTUS? Good luck to CA.

#8 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-11-05 04:35 PM

Prop 187
Prop 8

#9 | Posted by phinphan at 2025-11-05 04:56 PM

@#4 ... overturning the voters wishes. ...

This is a CA ritual.

I mentioned this before, and DonorBot lost his ----.

CA even voted overwhelmingly for Proposition 36, and Newsom won't fund it, because, get this, he didn't even put it in the budget.

Governor Gavin Newsom leaves Prop 36 funding out of revised budget
www.capradio.org

Can anyone sue? What's the point in propositions if the government doesn't implement them?

But illegal immigrants on the dole for health insurance, MORE MORE MORE....Which BTW CA voted against in prop 187 but was overturned by the courts ....

As I have stated CA is a poor reference for "democracy in action".

#10 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-05 05:08 PM

AI Overview
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The main point reporters are trying to fact-check is whether or not extending Advanced Premium Tax Credits (APTC) and reversing health care cuts in H.R. 1 would increase health coverage for undocumented immigrants.

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Funny how the self-described liberal Chinaman is always posting false Trumpy Talking Points.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-05 05:17 PM

There's nothing wrong with disallowing an unconstitutional amendment. Dumbass.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-05 05:19 PM

LAMP @ #1

"The Republicans started this redistricting push, and now they are whining because their own tactics are being used against them?

And if I recall, they did so WITHOUT a referendum.

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#13 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-11-05 05:37 PM

Prop 187
Prop 8
#9 | Posted by phinphan

Yeah, lawsuits are filed constantly. But actual overturns, as pointed out by Fresno? Once every couple of decades if the thing's blatantly unconstitutional. Prop 187 and Prop 8 are famous precisely because they're exceptions, not the rule.

#14 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-11-05 05:57 PM

If I'm not mistaken, there is a Gerrymandering case before the Supreme Court, I think it's from one of the Carolinas, that would allow a State legislature to redistrict as they see fit. In other words, they wouldn't even need to have a vote on it like in California.

So it will be interesting to see how the Supreme Court only lets Red states do that.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-05 05:58 PM

What's the point in propositions if the government doesn't implement them?
#10 | Posted by oneironaut

What's the point of a constitution if republicans can just ignore it and run an insurrectionist for president, which the constitution explicitly forbids?

#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-05 06:05 PM

As I have stated CA is a poor reference for "democracy in action".

#10 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

As I have stated before commie agitator quit lying about state.

Hurry back to the Motherland with your agitprop spy.

CA even voted overwhelmingly for Proposition 36, and Newsom won't fund it, because, get this, he didn't even put it in the budget.

It came with no funding source in the bill.

Regardless liar ...

Proposition 36 is funded by California, with the state providing initial funding through the budget and additional grants. The state budget includes money for behavioral health, court costs, and public defenders, and the governor recently announced over $100 million in grants to local governments to help implement the measure's requirements for substance abuse and mental health treatment.
State budget allocation: The budget agreement includes initial funding such as $50 million for behavioral health departments, $20 million for court costs, and $15 million for pre-trial services.
Grant funding: In September 2025, the state awarded $127 million in grants to local governments and tribal communities to support the implementation of both Prop 36 and Prop 47 programs.e

www.gov.ca.gov

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-05 06:45 PM

As I have stated before commie agitator quit lying about our state.

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-05 06:47 PM

#10 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Look at this fnkcin' guy! HAHAHA! Zero shame.

#19 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-11-06 05:31 PM

Look at this fnkcin' guy!

The classic "Legend in his own Mind".

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-06 06:23 PM

It came with no funding source in the bill.

Where does the funding for illegal immigrant healthcare come from?


www.gov.ca.gov
#17 | Posted by donnerboy

A year later after all the pressure from every major news outlet.

#21 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-06 06:30 PM


What's the point of a constitution if republicans can just ignore it and run an insurrectionist for president, which the constitution explicitly forbids?
#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

So sue, that's the point of the American court system isn't it?

#22 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-06 06:32 PM

Looks like DonorBot got caught up in the Newsom propaganda machine

CA counties call out Gov. Gavin Newsom for Prop. 36 funding announcement

California State Association of Counties' CEO Graham Knaus called out Gov. Gavin Newsom Friday for being misleading about allocating new funding for California's controversial tough-on-crime law, Prop. 36. On Friday, Newsom's office announced there would be "a new round of funding" " $127 million " to fund substance abuse and mental health treatment under two criminal justice mandates, Prop. 36 and Prop. 47. "This is existing money, already allocated to existing services," Knaus said in an emailed statement. "Simply saying it can also be spent to implement Prop. 36 doesn't magically give counties more money to pay for new, voter-approved mandates on top of existing services." Since the beginning of the legislative session, Republican lawmakers and counties have been putting pressure on Newsom and Democratic legislators to fund Prop. 36, which strengthens penalties for repeat drug and theft offenders. Voters overwhelmingly passed the law last November, despite Democratic opposition.

Read more at: www.sacbee.com
www.sacbee.com

oops donorBot caught in another lie, hope those "newsworthies" are now "lieworthies".

#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-06 06:35 PM

#22

Why does that not sound like an argument to the point, but rather like a lame obfuscation of a question?

Everyone knows that Mitch McConnel is why Trump isn't in prison right now. Well, most everyone.

#24 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-06 06:37 PM

Why does that not sound like an argument to the point, but rather like a lame obfuscation of a question?

Its not an obfuscation, the country has a constitution, and people sue all the time and WIN against the government.


Everyone knows that Mitch McConnel is why Trump isn't in prison right now. Well, most everyone.

Don't Americans even understand their own system?

Impeachment isn't a legal remedy, its a political one.

#25 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-06 07:05 PM

It's the PRESCRIBED CONSTITUTIONAL REMEDY... are you really this dumb?

At least Number Two Son was funny.

#26 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-06 07:09 PM

A year later after all the pressure from every major news outlet.

#21 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

The bill was passed with no source of funding you commie ICEhole.

The money had to be raised. It had to come from somewhere. It obviously took exactly that long to secure grants and funding.

Quit lying about my state commie agitator spy.

#27 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-07 10:56 AM

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