Map Violates Fifteenth Amendment, Voting Rights Act
(Alexandria, VA) December 2, 2025 – In the wake of its recent Texas redistricting victory the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) today filed a federal challenge to California’s Proposition 50 on the grounds it violates both the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act.
The complaint states California legislators intentionally used race to redraw congressional districts – a clear violation of federal law.
“The California legislature crossed a red line when it redrew the map, violating Fifteenth Amendment provisions which prohibit denying the right to vote based on a citizen’s race or color,” said PILF President J Christian Adams. “The US Constitution leaves no room for state officials to sort votes by race.”
Paul Mitchell, the man who drew the new congressional map, admitted in interviews to drawing district lines with intentional racial goals.
The new map deliberately kept California’s 16 Hispanic majority districts by narrowing the margin of Hispanic population in all but one district and keeping Hispanic population in a deliberately tight range of 52 to 55 percent in those districts.
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The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is the nation’s only public interest law firm dedicated wholly to election integrity. The Foundation exists to assist states and others to aid the cause of election integrity and fight against lawlessness in American elections. Drawing on numerous experts in the field, PILF seeks to protect the right to vote and preserve the Constitutional framework of American elections.
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