Prop 50: Is there ethical gerrymandering in California?
People supporting the enactment of Prop 50. (Photos attributed by CNN)
By MOHAMED ADAM MANSER
The Tower
MANTECA –Proposition 50 has become a harbinger of controversy, despite it being ethically justified by principle towards Texas’ redistricting.
Prop 50 passed in California on Nov. 4 , although it may functionally be a democratic form of unjust[AK1] gerrymandering, and will take effect in the 2026 elections as the majority decided.
Manipulating the U.S. House to this extent is unconstitutional amongst both parties and provides negative implications for the future and how it may affect Americans.
“The people that funded Prop 50, and those that have contributed to the commercials and stuff did a very good job of selling it to the public,” said MaryAnn Tolbert, an AP government teacher at Manteca High School. “But I think that if people took a step back from personalities and looked at what was trying to be done in the long term, that they probably wouldn’t be as supportive.”
Recently, the Supreme Court allowed Texas to use a gerrymandered map for the 2026 elections which may result in more Republican U.S House seats, and now California is using a temporary gerrymandered map as well. Before this, on August 11, 2025, Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, stated that California would retract their efforts to redistrict if other states had stopped as well in a letter to Donald Trump. Gavin Newsom did not receive a response within the given deadline. Regardless of principle, the legality of such is objectionable.
Crowd of people against enactment of Prop 50. (Photos attributed by Fox News)
“Our constitution set up a specific procedure to how to redistrict every 10 years,” Tolbert stated. “Taking that out of those hands and putting into a proposition and changing it into a different way to benefit one over another is direct contradiction of what was originally set up.”
Regardless of the objectionable exhibition, Gavin Newsom proposed it democratically, and of course; 64.42 percent of voters preferred the enactment of Prop 50.
In spite of Trump’s advantage with Texas, the majority of the populous is pleased with the outcome.
"They poked the bear,” Gavin Newsom spoke to the American peoples. “And the bear is poking back."
Whether this exhibition of principle substantially influences the U.S. House still unknown, it is definite this conflict is not over. Republicans are responding with legislations and propositions as well.