Why are Californians stuck with the unfair, racist Prop. 50?

The U.S. Supreme Court’s one-sentence denial of the Trump Administration’s emergency appeal petition on Feb. 4 means that Republican candidates for U.S. congressional districts in California will suffer confusion and loss (Feb. 9 is the start of the window for congressional candidates to file paperwork declaring their candidacies).

Why did this happen? Because the 6 “Republicans” on the U.S. Supreme Court have apparently decided to let individual states redraw congressional districts mid-term. They let Texas do it on Dec. 4, and now they’re “being consistent” to let California do it too.

Thus, the “chickens” on the nation’s high court have avoided applying to California’s Proposition 50 the “equal protection” or “due process” clauses of the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment’s prohibition of voting laws elevating “race” and “color” above others.

Hopefully, President Donald Trump is learning that he needs to nominate constitutional fighters, not politically-correct “conservatives,” like he did his first term. For there’s a big difference between Texas getting rid of racist maps and California promoting racism and breaking other laws in its Prop. 50 scheme.

SCOTUS’s cowardly deed means California Republicans will likely lose five congressional seats. And while some principled conservatives are happy to get rid of some RINOs, SaveCalifornia.com has consistently opposed Prop. 50 for its unfair gerrymandering.

As for the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, I think it will likely hold this year, since there are more Republican states doing redistricting than Democrat Party states. But since Congress has so many RINOS — Republicans In Name Only — who vote for the Swamp and with the Democrats — the bigger question is, will our Republic hold?

It’s going to be a wild and vitally important election year — and your active participation is definitely needed!

More on this story and issue:

SCOTUS Blog: “Supreme Court allows California to use congressional map benefitting Democrats”

California Globe: “Supreme Court rejects GOP bid to block California’s Prop 50 redistricting scheme”

Los Angeles Times: “Supreme Court, with no dissents, rejects GOP challenge to California’s new election map”

USA Today: “7 states tinker with congressional maps after California, Texas changes”

SaveCalifornia.com 2025: “Why the unfair, corrupt Prop. 50 passed”

Contrary to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ nutty claim that Republicans are trying to “steal the midterm elections” by redistricting in Texas, state legislators there are trying to correct what the Justice Department correctly calls “unconstitutional racially based” gerrymanders … Contrary to the discrimination claims they’re making in the press, it is these errant Democrats—not Republicans—who think there is nothing wrong with judging how people will vote based on the color of their skin and who want to preserve the racist redistricting.
Election law expert Hans von Spakovsky in the Daily Signal, Aug. 6, 2025