California Democrats are rushing to schedule an election to remake U.S. House districts to counter plans to boost Republican seats in Texas.

President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking broad changes to how elections are run in the U.S. is vast in scope and holds the potential to reorder the voting landscape across the country, even as it faces almost certain litigation.

Nearly two months after the election, a recount settled the outcome in a Northern California U.S. House primary contest.

California's reparations task force released its final report Thursday recommending how to atone for decades of discriminatory policies against African Americans.

California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force met for a final time in a crowded hearing room in Sacramento Thursday.

A first-in-the-nation task force in California to study and recommend reparations for African Americans met for the first time Tuesday.

She will be the first Black woman to hold the post and comes to the job with a special understanding about the right to vote. Weber, a state legislator and retired California State University, San Diego professor, was formally introduced by Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday, a day after he announced she would be nominated to fill the post now held by Secretary of State Alex Padilla. ... My dad never voted until he came to California in the (19)50s.”Weber said those experiences shaped her father's priorities for his children. The secretary of state — soon to be Newsom's appointee, Weber — oversees the process for the recall to qualify for the ballot.

(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)SAN FRANCISCO – The campaign to reinstate affirmative action in overwhelmingly Democratic California had money, momentum and big-name backers, including Black celebrities Issa Rae and Ava DuVernay, but voters in the most populated state rejected the measure. The measure was passing in Los Angeles and five San Francisco Bay Area counties that are liberal and losing everywhere else. California was founded as a free state but sanctioned ownership of Black people. Lawmakers figured the time was right with an electorate that is less Republican and more diverse than in 1996, when California voters banned affirmative action through a ballot measure pushed by then-Gov. Supporters raised $31 million and included chambers of commerce, tech companies, sports teams and Democratic leaders who said affirmative action programs are critical to undoing generations of systemic racism and sexism.

Jesse Jackson asks a crowd for donations to the advertising fund to stop Proposition 209 during a rally in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. The U.S. Supreme Court has long outlawed racial quotas, but it has ruled that universities may use tailored programs to promote diversity. Opponents include Ward Connerly, an African American businessman and former University of California regent who pushed for the 1996 ban. They say government should never discriminate by race or gender, and the only way to stop discrimination is to end it. The numbers of Latino and Asian American residents — and voters — have grown, although likely voters are still disproportionately white.

What am I to do, without even having the decency of a conversation to discuss the difficulties of race? Low asked his colleagues on Wednesday. If we cant even have these tough conversations, what do you think is going to happen to the electorate?" Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, who authored the repeal, apologized on the Assembly floor just before the vote for not contacting lawmakers individually. This is not the same California that voted on this 25 years ago, said Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, a Democrat from Los Angeles. California State University, the nations largest four-year public university with 23 campuses and nearly 482,000 students, has a student body that is nearly 75% people of color.

California has banned affirmative action-type programs since 1996 when 55% of voters agreed to amend the states Constitution to ban preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin. But this year, worldwide protests over racial injustice sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have given supporters a boost in their quest to bring affirmative action back to California. As of 2019, Hispanics make up 39% of the states population while whites account for 36.8%, according to the U.S. Census. California State University, the nations largest four-year public university with 23 campuses and nearly 482,000 students, has a student body that is nearly 75% people of color. Hispanics account for 43% of the students while whites account for 22.4%.