Ballots cast to approve Prop. 50 outnumbered "no" votes in Fresno, Imperial, Lake, Merced, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Joaquin counties, each of which were carried by Mr. Trump in the last presidential election.

The Justice Department on Thursday filed suit to block California’s newly approved congressional map, thrusting the nation’s most populous state into a widening national battle over redistricting and setting up a legal fight that could shape control of the U.S. House in 2026.

The U.S. Justice Department Thursday officially backed the California Republican Party’s lawsuit over Proposition 50, the ballot measure that was approved by voters last week to redraw congressional district lines across the state.

Under the new boundaries, Huntington Beach would be represented in Congress by Robert Garcia, a gay progressive and former mayor of Long Beach. That prospect doesn't sit well with some city leaders.

The president opposed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ballot measure, which passed in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

California voters approved Proposition 50, returning authority over congressional maps from the independent redistricting commission to the Democratic-controlled California Legislature. Gov. Gavin Newsom has said the measure responds to mid‑decade Republican redistricting in states such as Texas and Missouri.

Kicked off by a “power grab”-alleging tweet by Attorney General Pam Bondi, the move by the partisan feds comes a week after the lone measure on the Golden State ballot pulled in almost 65% of the over 10 million voters who went to the polls.

With more than 48,000 ballots still to be tabulated, about 61% of Ventura County voters supported the successful Proposition 50 redistricting measure, according to an election update on Nov. 10.

Amid the passage last week of Proposition 50, which approves newly drawn U.S. House maps in California to favor Democrats during next year’s midterm elections in response to Republican gerrymandering efforts in other states, one California politician is pushing a new plan as a way for Republicans to fight back: to split the state down the middle.