Overview

• State justices issued a one-sentence order declining to remove Proposition 50 from the Nov. 4 special-election ballot, dismissing Republicans’ second lawsuit in as many weeks.
• Proposition 50 would suspend the Citizens Redistricting Commission for the rest of the decade and enact Democratic-drawn congressional maps that supporters say could flip up to five Republican seats.
• Gov. Gavin Newsom has cast the measure as a response to Texas Republicans’ mid-decade remap advanced at President Donald Trump’s urging.
• Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher introduced a resolution to split California into coastal and inland states, a protest move with virtually no path through the Democratic-controlled Legislature.
• Anti-Prop. 50 efforts are accelerating, with Kevin McCarthy fundraising for Stop Sacramento’s Power Grab, Charles Munger Jr. contributing $10 million to a separate campaign, and Trump saying the Justice Department plans its own legal challenge.