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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- California politician Gavin Newsom is present calling for a peculiar predetermination to o.k. a one-time redrawing of California's legislature districts.
A nationalist amusement of enactment from California democrats to their counterparts successful Texas connected Friday.
Governor Gavin Newsom hosted fractional twelve Lone Star authorities lawmakers successful Sacramento. Those lawmakers leaving their location turf to forestall a ballot connected a Republican-led redistricting plan.
"With the enactment down me, they volition get this connected the ballot. We are calling for a peculiar predetermination that volition beryllium the archetypal week of November," said Gov. Newsom. "We are present to conscionable this infinitesimal caput on, and we look guardant to a palmy run and look guardant to bash what we tin to person the backmost of these courageous leaders."
Governor Newsom announced that maps volition besides beryllium redrawn successful California if voters o.k. it. Newsom promised this arsenic a one-time effort to adhd antiauthoritarian seats successful Congress. Texas authorities representatives stood down him arsenic helium made the announcement. The Texas democrats near their authorities to forestall the number fig needed for a ballot connected Texas' caller maps.
"Make nary mistake astir it. We are moving from thing we spot the information that is coming, and we are moving consecutive forth," said Ann Johnson, Texas State Representative.
California Democrats are privately preparing to respond to Texas Republicans' projected caller legislature districts.
Texas democrats accidental they're facing warrants for their arrests arsenic good arsenic efforts to expel them from the authorities House, but they basal by their actions.
"Two days ago, I checked successful with my bureau and we had 700 calls connected this measure proposing a caller map. Four were opposed, the remainder were each successful enactment of my breaking quorum. I'm doing precisely what my constituents want," said Gina Hinojosa, Texas State Representative.
The caller maps successful Texas could pb to 5 Republican seats, boosting the party's chances to unafraid the House successful 2026.
"Right now, the Republicans person a precise constrictive borderline successful the House. Which means that they person to enactment precise hard to support immoderate of their much eccentric online for mean votes. So what Trump wants is simply a bigger borderline truthful that helium tin propulsion his docket truthful they are hoping that if they tin prime up not conscionable successful Texas but successful a fewer of the different enactment states wherever they person trifecta government, they tin enactment each of them unneurotic heighten their margin," said Bruce Cain, Stanford University professor.
Professor Cain drew the redistricting lines successful 1981 successful assembly successful California and was progressive successful the legislature 1 successful 1982.
"Based connected the history, based connected what you lived. What's happening today? What is happening contiguous is fundamentally a declaration of the intent to spell guardant and to motorboat the archetypal steps to marque it hap due to the fact that we person a committee system, they are going to person to bypass that commission," said Professor Cain.
If Californians ballot to redistrict, Stanford University Fellow Lanhee J. Chen says that volition beryllium concerning adjacent if it lone changes maps for 2026.
"He is affecting the strategy of autarkic redistricting that voters successful this authorities person voted connected and approved, not once, but twice, successful 2008 and 2010, taking that powerfulness distant from autarkic commissions, from a committee of citizens and putting it successful the hands of politicians to gully overtly governmental lines. And it's successful my caput a usurpation of antiauthoritarian norms and perchance a usurpation of California law," said Lanhee J. Chen, Stanford University chap successful American Public Policy Studies.
Chen believes Governor Newsom is pushing for this displacement arsenic portion of his higher aspiration.
"He sees this arsenic an accidental to bolster and burnish his credentials with antiauthoritarian superior voters who volition find who the Presidential nominee is successful 2028. It's precise wide wherefore Gavin Newsom is doing this. He's doing this due to the fact that helium wants to beryllium President, and his bare governmental ambition has seemingly gotten successful the mode of immoderate instinct toward defending democracy. He talks a batch astir the ways successful which President Trump is attacking democracy. He's a hypocrite for making the statement successful the mode that he's made it and surely fixed what he's doing connected redistricting. I deliberation it's reasonably wide that he's a person archetypal and a nationalist servant last," said Chen.
California Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren said Democrats successful California are "happy" with each the districts arsenic they are, "but erstwhile we saw Texas was going to make the astir segregated representation successful Texas since the 60's to destruct each of the number of districts that they could, truthful they could make 5 Republican districts we said could make a representation that eliminated 5 enactment districts, but that was existent to the voting acts and we recovered retired that we could," said Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren.
The deadline to enactment unneurotic a ballot measurement is August 22. Robert Rivas, Speaker of the California State Assembly, said the maps are projected to beryllium acceptable and accessible for the nationalist to presumption adjacent week.
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