Charting New Boundaries: Key 2025 Redistricting Developments Across California

Charting New Boundaries: Key 2025 Redistricting Developments Across California

By EditorAug 14, 2025
Statewide Spotlight: Newsom Weighs a Counter-map Governor Gavin Newsom confirmed on July 25, 2025, that he is “exploring multiple options” to redraw California’s congressional districts in response to Texas’s mid-cycle GOP remap. Any plan would have to work around the state’s voter-approved Citizens Redistricting Commission, which the governor acknowledged is “a major obstacle” unless voters first amend the constitution in a special election. Central-Valley Litigation and Legislation Stanislaus County: MALDEF filed suit on April 23, 2025, alleging the county’s 2021 supervisor and school-board maps dilute Latino voting power in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Merced County:…
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Update: Status of New York Redistricting Maps. June 2023

Update: Status of New York Redistricting Maps. June 2023

By EditorJun 14, 2023
New York's post-2020 census redistricting continues to be contentious. Here is an update on the legal status of the congressional and state legislative maps. In 2022 state courts invalidated all three of New York state's redistricting maps (Congressional, state senate, and state assembly) on procedural grounds after the New York Independent Redistricting Commission deadlocked on maps. With no provision in the state constitution addressing exactly what should happen in the case of a commission deadlock, the legislature enacted its own maps in February of 2022. Later, a state trial court held that the legislature overstepped when it adopted maps and…
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