LOS ANGELES (CN) — California on Tuesday defended its voter-approved congressional district map as a purely partisan gerrymander against the Republican claim that it was an unlawful, racially motivated attempt to benefit Hispanic voters.
At the second day of an evidentiary hearing before a trio of federal judges in Los Angeles, the state’s expert witness Bernard Grofman, a redistricting specialist at UC Irvine, testified that the Proposition 50 map — approved by voters last month with the goal of giving Democrats five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives — was a classic case of partisan gerrymandering.
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