Wanting on the polls and the 2026 midterms, Donald Trump and his pliable Division of Justice at this time jumped into the trouble to dam Gavin Newsom‘s broadly handed Proposition 50 redistricting plan and save the Home of Representatives for the GOP.
And there’s a lot of canine whistling, if you understand what I imply?
“Race can’t be used as a proxy to advance political pursuits, however that’s exactly what the California Common Meeting did with Proposition 50—the latest poll initiative that junked California’s pre-existing electoral map in favor of a rush-job rejiggering of California’s congressional district strains,” the criticism in intervention filed in federal court docket Thursday to hyperlink up with an motion put forth on November 5 by state Republicans and the Newport Seaside-based Dhillon Legislation Group.
“The tip result’s a map that manipulates district strains within the identify of bolstering the voting energy of Hispanic Californians due to their race,” the 18-page doc stomach-churningly speculates. “Nobody, not to mention California, contends that its pre-existing map unlawfully discriminated on the premise of race. As a result of the Proposition 50 map does, the USA respectfully requests that this Court docket enjoin Defendants from utilizing it within the 2026 election and future elections.”
The brand new submitting, like final week’s submitting by state Republicans, claims Prop 50 “in violation of the Equal Safety Clause of the Fourteenth Modification to the USA Structure.”
As, Newsom’s workplace did when the preliminary swimsuit was filed the day after the off-year election, the governor’s group reduce to the chase with their out of court docket response this afternoon.
“These losers misplaced on the poll field and shortly they will even lose in court docket,” Newsom’s press secretary Izzy Gardon instructed Deadline at this time, a press release they posted on-line too.
Newsom’s group weren’t the one ones taking to social media to get their message out over Prop 50
Kicked off by a “energy seize” alleging tweet by Lawyer Common Pam Bondi, the transfer by the partisan feds comes every week after the lone measure on the Golden State poll pulled in nearly 65% of the over 10 million voters who went to the polls.
Having galvanized Newsom’s nationwide profile amongst Democrats for 2028, Prop 50 seeks to blunt the Texas originating gerrymandering makes an attempt by Republicans to retain management of the Home subsequent 12 months. The California initiative permits a short lived four-year substitute of the impartial fee that often makes redistricting choices to flip for the Dems as much as 5 Republican seats from the state’s large congressional delegation to DC.
With the MAGA White Home as soon as once more determined to distract consideration from the brand new e-mail revelations of what Trump calls the “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax,” the administration additionally Thursday pounded on concerning the finish of the federal government shutdown and despatched its loyal prosecutors after formidable Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) with threats of a prison investigation over mortgage and tax fraud allegations.
Newsom’s folks tried to remain on message:
