{"id":166849,"date":"2026-02-06T16:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166849\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:01:24","slug":"supreme-court-allows-new-california-congressional-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166849\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court allows new California congressional districts"},"content":{"rendered":"

California Governor Gavin Newsom, along with local congressional representatives, state officials and supporters, speaks as he announces the redrawing of California’s congressional maps, calling on voters to approve a ballot measure, in response to a similar move in Texas being supported by U.S. President Donald Trump, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 14, 2025. <\/p>\n

Mike Blake | Reuters<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Supreme\u00a0Court<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday allowed\u00a0California\u00a0to use a new\u00a0voter-approved congressional map<\/a>\u00a0that is favorable to\u00a0Democrats\u00a0in this year’s elections, rejecting a last-ditch plea from state\u00a0Republicans\u00a0and the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

No justices dissented from the brief order.<\/p>\n

The justices had previously\u00a0allowed Texas’ Republican-friendly map\u00a0to be used in 2026, despite a lower court ruling that it likely discriminates on the basis of race.<\/p>\n

Conservative Justice\u00a0Samuel Alito<\/a>\u00a0wrote in December that it appeared both states had adopted new maps for political advantage, which the high court has previously ruled cannot be a basis for a federal lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Republicans, joined by the Trump administration, claimed the\u00a0California\u00a0map improperly relied on race, as well. But a lower court disagreed by a 2-1 vote.<\/p>\n

The justices’ unsigned order keeps in place districts that are designed to flip up to five seats now held by\u00a0Republicans, part of a tit-for-tat nationwide redistricting battle spurred by President\u00a0Donald Trump, with control of\u00a0Congress\u00a0on the line in midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Last year, at Trump’s behest,\u00a0Texas\u00a0Republicans\u00a0redid the state’s congressional districts\u00a0with an eye on gaining five seats.<\/p>\n

California\u00a0Gov.\u00a0Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who is\u00a0eying a 2028 presidential run<\/a>, vowed to respond in kind, though he had to win over voters, not just lawmakers, to do so.<\/p>\n

Filing for congressional primaries in\u00a0California\u00a0begins on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Governor Gavin Newsom, along with local congressional representatives, state officials and supporters, speaks as he announces the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3885,3887,7,9,8,536,989,13],"class_list":["post-166849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-business-news","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}