Gavin Newsom takes on Texas over congressional redistricting

Imagine a Washington that President Trump is taken into account. A Washington where the Congress does not return like a dog that begs for a treatment. With all control and balancing works, a Washington that works as it should be.

Attractive, isn’t it?

Democrats need to win only three seats in 2026 to seize the control of the house and to apply some accountability to our bandit president. This is something Trump is aware of, so he forces Texas Take my extraordinary step Draw the limits of congress before the midterm exam.

Republicans, who have been controlled by iron -coated control over Texas for decades, hold 25 of Texas’s 38 congress seats. A special session in Austin next week aims to increase this number by five seats and to increase the likelihood of GOP’s hanging home.

Enter, Stage Left is the governor of California’s White House intelligence.

Gavin Newsom as part of a recent Southern campaign release, Progressive Tennessee podcaster To discuss the power of the Republic. (Picnic bench, shirt arms, beer and f-bomba showed that the governor authenticThere was any doubt.)

Texas Gov. “They are not around now – they are not around now. They play with a completely different rules,” Greg Abbott and Republicans said. Years ago, he stated that he had created an independent commission to draw political lines of California, which normally said that they did ten years later after the emergence of new census figures.

However, in Sacramento, the super mostly said that democrats could be ger Gerrymander like any other state ”.

Uz We’re playing fairly, ”he continued, but Abbott’s actions“ made me question the whole program ”. Later, the governor, who was detailed on social media, accused the Republicans of deceiving towards extra home seats and “Ca is watching – and you can bet that we will not be idle.”

For this, there is a Texas expression: no hat and cattle.

The truth is that the voters have removed political line drawing from the governors and other deputies, and for a good reason, it doesn’t matter how the Chen Swagger can play with Trump-Seathing Democrats for a good reason.

Justin Levitt, who is an expert on redistribution at Loyola Law Faculty, said, “We have a commission.” “We have a constitution that says that you have begun to rewrite every 10 years unless this is not only in a constitution and a constitution and a commission.

In other words, it is not dependent on HUFF and puff and blowing to existing home areas.

In November 2010, California voters approved 20 proposals that delivered the drawing of the Congress line to a 14 -member commission without a partisan. The issue was to introduce competition by removing the self -implied deputies. He passed an overwhelming margin between 61% and 39% and worked as aimed at.

After decades of cooked congress competitions, when the success of a party or the other was almost guaranteed, California became a competition bed; In recent years, the state, which was considered after the ballot for the President in November, has been the key to the control of the house. In 2026, a dozen seats from 52 can be at least a little competitive.

“I think he worked greatly,” said Sara Sadhwani at the Assistant Policy Professor at Pomona College and a member of the redistribution commission (I think other people who made a map was a seminar professor, a structural engineer and a researcher for the Los Angeles County Sheriff department.)

Levitt said there are two ways, Newsom and other democrats could take back the handicrafts of the commission.

They can violate the law and draw the legislation by drawing new lines, face an inevitable case and dominate a sympathetic decision from the Supreme Court of California. Or they may ask voters to approve different lines through a new constitutional amendment in a rush special election before the 2026 midterm exams.

Both scenarios seem to be as reasonable as fulfilling their promises for universal health services and fulfilling the commitment to build 3.5 million new houses per year and fulfilling their promises for the other two exaggerated promises.

To be open, none of the above condemn the plan of Trump and Abbott trying to get out of egg. His actions are politically cruel and a little cynical. (A letter from Trump’s hand in hand justice department provided a legal fig leaf For a special session. Texas has recently reported that four of the congress regions of the minority of the minority regions have been contrary to the constitution and that they were gerryrder along the racial lines and thus justifying the drawing of a new map.)

However, it is not an excuse for Newsom to finish California voters or call a special election that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars at a time when the state’s red ink gushes.

Politics caused by revenge, whether Trump or Newsom scores, are both dangerous and wrong.

There is also a matter of providing empty threats. Some democrats may excite every time they deliver one of Newsom’s Pugnacious statements. This seems to be a large part of the presidential campaign strategy. However, the same voters may exhaust the lack of follow -up as well as California.

Newsom has a justified reputation in excessive proxy and inadequate presentation.

It is not likely to serve him well on the national stage.