How the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling could affect California’s gerrymandered districts
[PCDCC Editor’s Note: The presentation of this article illustrates the Republicans’ next salvo to attempt to regain power in the California Republic. It is evidenced in this article but implicitely stated in the Conservative Federal government Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. The conservative pundit in this article has taken a stab at preempting continued democratic governance in California.]
CalMatters, Commentary
BY Dan Walters, Conservative Pundit, APRIL 30, 2026
When California’s independent redistricting commissions drew new maps of the state’s congressional and legislative districts after the 2010 and 2020 censuses, their members were emphatically told by legal advisors that the federal Voting Rights Act required them to maximize opportunities for ethnic communities to elect officeholders.
The commissions went to great lengths to fold that mandate into the geographic boundaries of the districts, even if it required them to ignore city and county lines.