WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an emergency application from the California Republican Party, with the support of the Trump administration, seeking to block California’s voter-approved Proposition 50 congressional map.
The ruling clears the way for California to use the new map in the 2026 midterm elections. California voters overwhelmingly approved the Proposition 50 map in November 2025 after Texas and other Republican-controlled states began an unprecedented round of mid-decade redistricting at President Trump’s direction.
After President Trump’s Department of Justice and the California GOP filed lawsuits seeking to strike down the Proposition 50 map, Elias Law Group attorneys representing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) intervened to defend the new map.
Last month, a federal three-judge panel rejected GOP claims that the map constituted an illegal racial gerrymander. Republicans appealed to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to block the map.
“Today’s ruling is a decisive victory for the millions of California voters who overwhelmingly approved Proposition 50,” said Elias Law Group partner Abha Khanna. “The Supreme Court’s decision confirms the lower court finding that California’s new map is an unambiguously partisan response to Texas’s mid-decade redistricting. Republicans and President Trump’s Department of Justice tried and failed to overturn the will of California voters. Thankfully, those voters will have another chance to make their voices heard in November.”
“This case was a cynical attempt to use the courts to override the will of seven million California voters,” said Elias Law Group partner Lali Madduri. “That attempt has now failed at every level. Elias Law Group was proud to represent the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in defense of the Proposition 50 map and the will of Californians.”
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