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Posted on 08/21/2025 9:11:44 PM PDT by thecodont
SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — California voters will decide in November whether to approve a redrawn congressional map designed to help Democrats win five more U.S. House seats next year, after Texas Republicans advanced their own redrawn map to pad their House majority by the same number of seats at President Donald Trump’s urging.
California lawmakers voted mostly along party lines Thursday to approve legislation calling for the special election. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has led the campaign in favor of the map, then quickly signed it — the latest step in a tit-for-tat gerrymandering battle.
“This is not something six weeks ago that I ever imagined that I’d be doing,” Newsom said at a press conference, pledging a campaign for the measure that would reach out to Democrats, Republicans and independent voters. “This is a reaction to an assault on our democracy in Texas.”
Republicans, who have filed a lawsuit and called for a federal investigation into the plan, promised to fight the measure at the ballot box as well.
California Assemblyman James Gallagher, the Republican minority leader, said Trump was “wrong” to push for new Republican seats elsewhere, contending the president was just responding to Democratic gerrymandering in other states. But he warned that Newsom’s approach, which the governor has dubbed “fight fire with fire,” was dangerous.
“You move forward fighting fire with fire and what happens?” Gallagher asked. “You burn it all down.”
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Hahaha.
AS IF the Dems have a prayer of winning in 2028, with all the winning we’re experiencing, and all the winning yet to come in the next 3 years.
Look at the quote from the coward cuck Republican “leader.” See what we’re up against here in CA?
Pretext. California was likely going to.do that anyway. Especially with illegals deporting themselves.
So the gov. Violated the calif constitution with this map.
So can any other state violate laws and just say “ we will create 30 new republican districts “
Cause you know. It’s for democracy.
From what I read, please correct if I’m wrong
A map by the California constitution can only be drawn by the commission. Then post for 30 days before a vote by the states house .
Omygosh. I'm embarrassed to admit that that panty waist is my representative.
He used to come to our Tea Party meetings and he comes into the bar I work at every once in a while. What a jerk.
I don’t think he violated the California Constitution.
Whatever is redrawn will not change anything. The Democrats have worked their gerrymandering so much, it is now squeezing blood out of a turnip.
So the gov. Violated the calif constitution with this map.
So can any other state violate laws and just say “ we will create 30 new republican districts “
Cause you know. It’s for democracy.
From what I read, please correct if I’m wrong
A map by the California constitution can only be drawn by the commission. Then post for 30 days before a vote by the states house .
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The resolution passed by the California legislature places an initiative on the November ballot to amend the state Constitution. There’s a high likelihood of it passing.
Once Republicans have been essentially eliminated from the legislature, the Democrats will draw the districts they want. The November vote will simply repeal the old rules you cite.
How does the case against Majority-Minority districts figure into the fates of congressional seats? Last i heard was that they violated constitutional law based on the 15th amendment making racial biases unlawful. Has anyone any news on this? TY.
The war of the Midterms is going to be a shit show. The Democrats desperately need the House. We must hold it. The Senate is a different animal but the Democrats know that’s not as achievable.
California is so rigged with cheating that the left can win any vote that they want.
First, the Republicans can argue that every nonbudgetary bill requires 30 day notice before the bill can be voted on by the legislature. Republicans weren’t given 30 day notice of the changed congressional district lines.
Second, one can’t pass this without specifying the funding needed for this special election and providing for the funding. As far as I know, the Democrats haven’t passed a funding bill for this special election. The Republicans should sue the governor to stop this special election.
That’s what I’m seeing to....The map can only be drawn by the commission. That did not happen.
It’s better if Cauliphonya is a one party state. That way they won’t be confused with as being Americans. Newscum still reminds me of a greasy meatball that rolled off a plate of spaghetti onto the floor.
The California Supreme Court rejected a challenge by Republicans that the bill that Newsom signed failed to meet the 30-day cooling period for public review before the bill could be signed into law. Democrats argued that the "gut and amend" was done to bills that were created long before the 30-day period, making it legal, even if the new content itself never faced public scrutiny. In other words, the bill satisfied the letter of the law, if not the spirit of the law.
That said, the Califonia Supreme Court never addressed the issue of putting an unauthorized map on the ballot. Currently, the California constitution grants exclusive authority for creating district maps to the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, meaning that no other body has the authority to draw maps. The map that is included in Assembly Bill 604 and is a part of Newsom's Election Rigging Response Act contains an unconstitutional map.
AB 604 is calling the map "provisional," but even provisional maps must be created by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission until the constitution is changed. The question is the constitutionality of putting something that is unconstitutional onto a ballot now that won't be voted on for another 2+ months, and then campaigned on until the election.
If instead of a map we were dealing with an illegal candidate and an amendment to the constitution that legalizes the candidate (say, for example, a change to a residency or age requirement) on the same ballot, would the state allow that candidate to file for office, raise funds, and campaign on the provision that the candidate becomes legal during the actual election? Or would the proper process be that the people change the constitution to amend the age or residency requirement in one election, and then the now legal candidate can file, fundraise, and campaign in the next election?
That should be what's happening now: hold the special election to amend the constitution to remove the California Citizens Redistricting Commission' exclusive authority to create maps, and then in a following election place the now-authorized map up for election. Newsom is piggy-backing the unconstitutional map and the bill that amends the constitution on the same ballot.
That's the constitutional violation that Newsom is committing. He really needs two special elections to do this properly.
-PJ
See how quickly he did it? Democrats have lots and lots of experience with gerrymandering. The machinery is all in place and they’re not about to break it down unless forced to. The practice needs to be made illegal everywhere. Blowhair complains about gerrymandering in Texas, but notice how he makes no call to make it illegal.
This would be a Pyrrhic victory for California. Missouri is poised to react by making the entire state red. It’s an easy task and lawful. Ohio could follow.
Newsome is waging a losing battle to make himself look better for 2028. His dem base is too stupid to realize it.
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There is not a high likelihood of it passing. Polls indicate the opposite.
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