{"id":81863,"date":"2025-12-04T22:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81863\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:04:36","slug":"new-lawsuit-over-prop-50-filed-by-conservative-legal-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81863\/","title":{"rendered":"New lawsuit over Prop 50 filed by conservative legal group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The legal battle continues over Prop 50 in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A conservative legal group called &#8220;The Public Interest Legal Foundation&#8221; has filed a lawsuit against the redrawn congressional map.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/justice-department-sues-block-california-us-house-map-clash-could-tip-control-congress\/18151944\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justice Department sues to block California US House map in clash that could tip control of Congress<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The group claims the map is racially discriminatory and drawn to preserve a specific number of Hispanic-majority districts, as well as two predominantly black districts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They claim the map is a violation of the state&#8217;s 15th Amendment and Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The group is asking the federal court to prevent Prop 50 from going into effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/california-democrats-celebrate-prop-50-victory-gop-launches-legal-challenge\/18118558\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Democrats celebrate Prop 50 victory as GOP launches legal challenge<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The proposition was approved by voters in November&#8217;s special election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It will temporarily redraw the congressional map to make five U.S. House seats more favorable for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The proposition is also facing challenges from the Trump administration and Republican state legislators.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The legal battle continues over Prop 50 in California. EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: The video above&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[46664,46661,112,114,113,46663,46662,1362,294],"class_list":["post-81863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-46664","tag-california-proposition","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-lawsuit-filed","tag-map-redistricting","tag-prop-50","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81863","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=81863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}