Brad Sherman on DOJ Lawsuit Against CA Redistricting: 'A Desperate Legal Move'

California Redistricting Lawsuit

• 📌 Representative Brad Sherman describes the DOJ's involvement in the lawsuit against California's redistricting as a desperate legal move that is unlikely to succeed.
• ⚠️ Sherman asserts the lawsuit is wrong on the facts and wrong on the law, stating that current law permits states to discriminate for partisan gain.

Law and Partisan Gain

• ⚖️ The current law, which Sherman wishes to see corrected in Washington, allows states to discriminate for the purpose of partisan gain.
• 🎯 Sherman clarifies that the objective in the redistricting process was to collect five seats for the Democrats, not to empower any specific ethnicity.

Ethnicity and Redistricting

• 💬 While acknowledging that creating new Democratic seats might result in a district with a Latino majority due to the demographics of Latino Democrats in California, Sherman insists this was not the objective.
• 🚫 Even if ethnicity had been an objective, Sherman believes it would not disqualify the redistricting plan.

Representation and New Districts

• 🗺️ Sherman states that the new district lines will be effective and expresses his eagerness to represent his new district.