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Newsom Indicators California’s Redistricting Plan as Texas Finalizes New Maps
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Newsom Indicators California’s Redistricting Plan as Texas Finalizes New Maps

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By Tycoon Herald 8 Min Read Published August 22, 2025
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This text was initially printed  by The Epoch Instances: Newsom Indicators California’s Redistricting Plan as Texas Finalizes New Maps

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Aug. 21 signed a legislative bundle to place a measure on the Nov. 4 poll that might redraw the state’s congressional map to favor Democrats, in response to Texas redistricting efforts.

The tally within the decrease state Meeting was 57–20. The measure handed the state Senate in a 30–8 vote, and was signed into regulation by Newsom about half-hour after the legislature authorized it.

The collection of payments—mixed right into a bundle dubbed the Election Rigging Response Act—establishes new maps for congressional districts, offers authorization for the redrawn map to exchange the present one, and declares a Nov. 4 particular election to hunt Californians’ approval of the change.

The invoice’s passage comes because the Texas Senate presses ahead with a vote to authorize a redrawn map of the state’s congressional districts.

A Texas Senate committee authorized the invoice to create the brand new map on Thursday night. Although a vote on closing passage was initially anticipated the identical night, that vote is now anticipated after the Senate reconvenes on Friday.

If the map is authorized by the state legislature, it’ll go to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature.

Congressional maps are often drawn as soon as a decade following the decennial census, and mid-decade redistricting is a comparatively uncommon phenomenon.

Newsom, the main advocate for redrawing California’s maps, has mentioned the transfer is meant to “meet fire with fire,” responding to Texas’s efforts to broaden GOP management of its U.S. Home delegation by 5 seats.

Leaders in each chambers defended the transfer forward of the vote.

“We are prepared and we will fight fire with fire,“ California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said. “We will do whatever it takes to defend our democracy. We will do whatever it takes to protect the voices, the votes, and the rights of every American.”

On Aug. 20, the Texas Home handed a brand new congressional map when beforehand absent Democratic lawmakers returned after being assured of California’s efforts to counter Texas’s transfer.

The California legislative bundle would redraw the boundaries for 5 at the moment GOP-held districts to extend their share of voters who’re Democrats.

Three California Republicans—Reps. Kevin Kiley, Doug LaMalfa, and Ken Calvert—are notably endangered by the change, as their districts are on monitor to be inundated by voters who backed Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024.

Two different Republican seats in danger—at the moment held by Reps. Darrell Issa and David Valadao—might nonetheless keep underneath GOP management, in response to The Prepare dinner Political Report, though retaining these districts will grow to be considerably tougher underneath the redrawn maps.

California, probably the most populous state within the union, at the moment holds 52 seats within the U.S. Home, 43 of that are held by Democrats.

Newsom and different California Democrats have mentioned their transfer was purely reactive to that of Texas Republicans, whereas some critics of the plan have mentioned that it flouts the state’s structure.

Particularly, underneath a 2008 constitutional modification adopted by a referendum, redistricting in California is dealt with by an impartial fee.

To get round that, Newsom and different state Democrats are pushing for the approval of a brand new referendum to briefly bypass the nonpartisan fee and permit the voting public to approve the Democrat-proposed maps.

Former President Barack Obama expressed help for Newsom’s transfer.

“I believe that Gov. Newsom’s approach is a responsible approach. He said this is going to be responsible. We’re not going to try to completely maximize it,” he mentioned at an Aug. 19 fundraiser on Martha’s Winery in Massachusetts.

“We’re only going to do it if and when Texas and/or other Republican states begin to pull these maneuvers. Otherwise, this doesn’t go into effect.”

In an interview with California Capitol journalist Eytan Wallace, state Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, a Republican from San Diego, described the push as “corrupt, illegitimate, and illegal effort by politicians to remove citizens from [the process of] drawing the lines and [give] the power back to politicians.”

DeMaio additionally criticized the Republican bid to extend their maintain on the Texas Home delegation, saying, “Gerrymandering is wrong no matter who’s doing it, whether it’s done by a red state or a blue state.”

“We want the citizens to be able to draw the lines, not the politicians,” he mentioned.

Kiley, the congressman whose seat is most in danger by the redrawn maps, has equally criticized each states’ efforts at mid-decade redistricting.

When requested for his ideas on Democrats who fled Texas to delay a vote on Texas Republicans’ invoice, Kiley instructed native information outlet KTLA 5: “I think people are looking at that and saying, ‘This is not the way the political process is supposed to work.’ I think it does underscore the need to restore sanity to this whole process.”

A invoice launched by Kiley would ban mid-decade redistricting completely.

Beneath the California proposal, voters can be given the choice to vote just for or in opposition to the predetermined maps within the referendum and never on how the maps ought to be drawn.

Nonetheless, observers say the measure is prone to be authorized by voters within the deep blue state.

Neama Rahmani, a California-based lawyer and authorized commentator, beforehand instructed The Epoch Instances that the measure is prone to move if positioned on the poll later this 12 months. “California is a heavily blue state throwing a lot of money at this,” Rahmani mentioned.

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