The proposition granting the Democrat-controlled legislature authority to redraw California's congressional districts won by a decisive margin, but the Trump administration is suing to stop the gerrymandering scheme.

On Thursday the Department of Justice filed to join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the law that would allow Democrats to possibly flip five Republican seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

'Race cannot be used as a proxy to advance political interests, but that is precisely what the California General Assembly did with Prop. 50.'

Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom lauded the proposition's passage as a victory for Democrats against President Donald Trump.

Trump officials fired back that the scheme violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution base

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