The Department of Justice alleged to the Supreme Court on Thursday that California improperly factored race into its newly redrawn congressional map, arguing that the high court should block the map because it violated the Voting Rights Act.Solicitor General John Sauer said the map, approved by California voters under the ballot measure Proposition 50 in November, was "tainted by an unconstitutional racial gerrymander." The Supreme Court should quickly intervene and pause a lower court’s decision that upheld the map, Sauer said.The DOJ’s arguments came as part of a lawsuit state Republicans br...

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