Here’s Why Gavin Newsom’s Race-Based Gerrymandering In CA Will Fail

The Federalist ^ | November 21, 2025 | M.D. Kittle

[E. Pluribus Unum]

‘It’s pretty blatant that they were using race when they drew up new districts to get rid of Republicans,’ said Hans von Spakovsky.

Listening to Gavin Newsom talk about “free and fair elections” is like listening to Yoko Ono sing. It just doesn’t sound right. In both cases, it’s very wrong. 

But Newsom, born without the encumbrance of integrity, insists on lecturing Republicans about election integrity. 

“Donald Trump and Greg Abbott played with fire, got burned — and democracy won,” the leftist California governor stricken with political delusions of grandeur gloated on X this week after a federal court panel in a 2-1 ruling blocked Texas from implementing a mid-decade revision to its U.S. House map. Republicans have appealed the decision, which the dissenting judge excoriated as “the most blatant exercise of judicial activism” he has witnessed in his 37 years on the federal bench.

Newsom, who this month signed the most politically — and racially — twisted congressional map in the Left Coast’s history, insists the “ruling is a win for Texas, and for every American who fights for free and fair elections.”

It’s not, and, to borrow a bit of legal jargon, the governor with White House dreams dancing in his thickly gelled head has no standing on the subject of free and fair elections.  

Besides, election law experts say, California and its uber-gerrymandered maps are next to fall. 

“It seems to me that it’s pretty obvious. It’s pretty blatant that they were using race when they drew up new districts to get rid of Republicans,” Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative,...

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[DIRTYSECRET]

**like listening to Yoko Ono sing. It just doesn’t sound right. In both cases, it’s very wrong.**

She sang better than Linda McCartney.

[PermaRag]

The next time that alleged race-based gerrymandering is overturned because of being used against *Whites* (and therefore Republicans) will be the first time ever.

That first time is very likely to wait for a while.

Best case scenario here is that the CA gerrymander is tied up in the courts (good luck) and they have to use the old map in 2026 — which is hardly a fair map either. It’s just not a complete obliteration of Republicans like the new one is.

[butlerweave]

Newsom trying to rig presidential election for himself

[SmokingJoe]

Texas case is tied up in court too, even though the Governor has made clear the Texas redistricting was not based on race.
We'll see.

[pgyanke]

There’s a lawsuit against his gerrymandering… and yet no stay against its implementation by an omnipotent district judge.

Prediction: the TX gerrymander will be delayed long enough to be too late for 2026 while CA will implement theirs and it will be too late to block it.

[PermaRag]

“Texas case is tied up in court too”

It sure is. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Democrats also get the new Missouri and North Carolina maps overturned too, which were designed to reap a grand total of two seats for the GOP (the NC one they *could* get even with the old map).

The 3-judge panel which screwed us in Texas did resort to claiming race was the issue (Democrat judges ALWAYS know what Republicans are “thinking” when they create maps).

The old Texas map, as I have pointed out, had 19 (out of 38) “majority-minority” districts. The new one has — gasp! — only 18 out of 38 if I am counting correctly.

So give ‘em one district back.

But that’s not the point — it’s not really about race at all, it’s about maximizing Democrats and minimizing Republicans in the House. Period.

They could do a revised map today in Texas, with 19 anti-White districts, and the judges would still spit on it.

[caddie]

Redistricting is mathematically difficult and there really is not a perfectly 'fair' way to do it.

It can be approached with several different methods, but each has its pluses and minuses.

That is probably why the Constitution allows each state to do it. Because it turfs the inevitable arguments over fairness of various methods to each state.

There are some organizations, academic and otherwise, trying to find the perfect method.

Ultimately one must choose, and the choice is arbitrary, and those who choose are in the majority.

Having a federal judge overturn a state's legislature's decision regarding electoral maps is absolutely 180 degrees opposed to the spirit and letter of the Constitution.

[sphinx]

Both the Texas and California cases will be appealed. If the circuit courts split, allowing one gerrymander to proceed and blocking the other, that would seem to be an automatic pass to the Supreme Court. Given the importance of the issue, the Supremes will take the case. I would expect the SC to impose consistency. Which side they come down on, I don’t know.

But the timetable is pretty tight. This needs to be handled expeditiously.

[bobbo666]

All Demo gerrymandering is racist. Always has been.

[Scrambler Bob]

Just assign the task to AI.

“Look at the population/political party.

“Put all the Repubs in one district.

“Put all the Dems in all the other districts.”

Should be EZ.