Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday asked California legislators to approve a November vote measure that would allow them to re -draw the State Congress map in an effort to fight against the redistribution plans of districts of half of the Republicans in Texas and other places.
Newsom’s proposal, called “Rigging Election Response Law”, would pave the way for California Democrats to elude the independent commission that controls the maps drag process in the state and would approve new lines of Congress that would be more favorable for their party.
The measure occurs when Republicans in Texas, with the support of President Donald Trump, are looking for a new map of Congress that would allow them to win up to five more seats in the House of Representatives.
“It is not complicated. We are doing this in reaction to a president of the United States who called a governor in the state of Texas and said:” Find me five seats, “said Newsom.” We are doing it reaction to that act. We are making it aware of our upper angels and better angels. We are making it aware that we want to model a better behavior, as we have been doing for 15 years in the State of California with our independent districts redistribution commission. But we cannot unilaterally disarm. “
California Democrats need the approval of others to set aside the redistribution commission of independent districts of the State, and the clock is marking legislators to approve a voting initiative for the elections of November 4 of this year. If the measure passes, it would allow new maps to be promulgated in time for the mid -period elections 2026.
Several other Democratic leaders in California appeared with Newsom in an event on Thursday, framing their redistribution effort of districts in the middle of the decade as a broader reprimand of Trump and the actions of his administration.
Sara Sadhwani, a member of the Redistribution Commission of California districts that spoke at Thursday’s event, warned that immigration agents were out of the place where the demonstration was carried out and made arrests.
Sadwani said Trump was “turning our cities into the police.”
“We are seeing an executive overreach that is undoubtedly making our founding parents deliver in their tombs,” he said.
The California movement is the next save in what has become a national tit-for-tat at the national level among the states led by Republicans and Democrats in response to a plan to re-draw the lines of Congress in Texas to fill out the majority of the Republican Party in the United States Chamber.
Last month, after Trump urged the public, Abbott called the Texas Legislature controlled by the Republican Party for a special session that included a rare redise that mid -decade of the Map of the Congress outside the typical cycle of a decade.
Newsom told reporters after the demonstration that the state legislature would formally launch the effort on Monday through a series of bills.
“We anticipate that the legislature will move quickly and will complete that work,” he said.
He added that the new proposed maps would appear in the next few days and that he hoped that “the efforts in Texas would neutralize and neutralize.
Newsom said that if red states do not advance with the redistribution of districts, California’s efforts would not be necessary, but added that “we are not waiting.”
During an interview with CNBC earlier this month, Trump said Republicans have “right to five more seats” in Texas.
Republicans already have 25 of the 38 seats of the Texas Congress, but Trump won 27 of those seats in last year’s presidential elections. If the new Maps thrown by Republicans enter into force, 30 of those seats will have voted for Trump last year.
“Wake up, America. Wake up what Donald Trump is doing,” said Newsom on Thursday. “Wake up with his assault. He awakens the assault on institutions, knowledge and history.”
The move of Republicans in Texas led dozens of Democrats from the Chamber of State Representatives to flee the State to deny Republicans a quorum, the minimum number of legislators who must attend the Chamber to consider the legislation. For almost two weeks, the Democrats sat during dozens of interviews and celebrated press conferences aimed at criticizing the plan of the Republican party and asking the Democratic governors who promise to respond seeking to return to draw their maps to counteract the possible profits of the Republican Party in Texas, and possibly in other states.
Newsom has been the most member of those governors, spending weeks warning that he would press to re -draw California’s maps if the Republicans in other states did not retire and repeatedly incite Trump in the interviews and social networks.
On Thursday, the president of the Democratic Caucus of the House of Texas, Gene Wu, said in a statement that two conditions must be met for legislators to return to the State. The first was for Texas Republicans to make the current special session, which are intended for Friday. And the second was that California Democrats propose their own new Maps of Congress.
“When the Legislature is postponed to Sine Die and California presents its maps, we will return to the floor of the Chamber and the Palace of Justice with a clear message: the fight to protect vote rights just started,” Wu said.
But while Texas and other states led by the Republican Party that are considering the redistribution of districts in the middle of the decade only need the approval of the legislatures and governors of the majority of the Republican Party, the process in many blue states is much more complicated.
California needs the approval of the legislature and then voters. The road is even more arduous in New York, where a constitutional amendment proposed would need to approve two consecutive legislative sessions and then be approved by voters to a voting measure next year. That long process almost ensures that, even if the Democrats are successful, the maps would not change until the 2028 elections as very soon.
Newsom, through his social networks account of the press office, recently took a new public relations tactics in the current salt between him and the White House. In a series of publications in X, Newsom published statements from all CAP, mocking directly from Trump’s messages while working to attract attention to their efforts.
“Donald ‘Taco’ Trump, as many call it, ‘lost’ the deadline !!!” The Newsom press office wrote in X. “California will now draw new and more” beautiful maps “, they will be historical since they will end the presidency of Trump (the Democrats turn to the house!)
