California Republicans are continuing to stop Newsom’s redistribution thrust

The California Republicans urges the Supreme Court of the State to prevent Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democrats from progressing quickly with their push to redraw the districts of the Congress to add five left seats in the highly blue state.

Four legislators in the GOP state took legal action on Tuesday at the Supreme Court of California to prevent the legislature of the State dominated by the Democrats from stretching a vote by the end of this week to advance the redistribution push.

“Today, I joined my colleagues to file a legal action contesting the precipitated redistribution process. The constitution of California requires that the bills be printed for 30 days, but that the safeguard was ignored. Bypassing this provision, Sacramento actually eliminated voters from its own legislative process.

The Kate Sanchez assembly, one of the four Republicans behind the trial, told Fox News Digital that she had joined the trial because “the Californians have already spoken clearly in the ballot box. 39%.

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The republican leader of the Assembly James Gallagher is expressed in opposition to the plan of the Democrats to advance a partisan effort to redraw the map of the Californian congress during a press conference on Monday, August 18, 2025, in Sacramento, California. (AP photo / Tran nguyen)

The decision of the GOP legislators is the last development of the battle with high issues between the Republicans and the Democrats in California and Texas for the redistribution of the congress before the mid-term elections of next year.

In Austin, Texas, the House of Representatives of the State dominated by the GOP took over the meeting in a second consecutive special session called by the conservative republican governor Greg Abbott.

As they return to work, they should pass a redistribution card designed by the GOP which would create up to five districts of the Republican Congress to the detriment of the seats currently controlled by the Democrats in the red state.

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“Please pass this card as soon as possible. Thank you to Texas,” President Donald Trump wrote in an article on social networks on Monday.

The republican thrust in Texas, which comes at the request of Trump, is part of a wider effort of the GOP across the country to fill their majority at the thin house like the razor to keep control of the mid-term room in 2026, when the power party traditionally faces a political head and loses seats.

The president of Texas of the Dustin Burrows Chamber strikes the hammer while the house calls a special session with a quorum, Monday, August 18, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (APO PHOTO – Eric Gay)

Trump and his political team aim to prevent what happened during his first mandate in the White House, when the Democrats returned to seize the majority of the Chamber in the 2018 mid-term elections.

The Texas Republicans enjoy a supermajority in the Legislative Assembly and the State Senate adopted the new Congress cards last week, during the first special legislative session.

But the Republicans of the Texas Chamber were prevented from holding votes on the new card for two weeks, while dozens of representatives of the Democratic State fled the state to refuse the GOP a quorum in the Chamber of Texas.

The Democratic legislators of Texas undertake to fight before the courts after the cards are adopted by the Legislative Assembly and signed by Abbott, which is expected in the coming days.

Supporters of the Texas Democratic singing, when members come into the room in Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Monday, August 18, 2025. (AP photo / Stephen Spillman)

Although the republican push to Texas to upset the current Congress cards is not confronted with constitutional constraints, the Newsom path and Democrats in California is much more complicated.

The governor is moving to organize a special election this year, to obtain the approval of the voters to cancel the constitutional amendments that created the non -partisan redistribution committee.

A two -third -third majority vote in the Californian legislative assembly dominated by the Democrats would be necessary to hold the referendum, and the Democrats of Sacramento unveiled a bill on Monday to move forward with the referendum.

However, the emergency petition laid Tuesday by state republican legislators argues that the California Constitution prevents the legislator from acting on the draft bills until next month, because a 30 -day exam period is necessary for new legislation.

Sanchez argued that voters were intentionally excluded from the process, saying to Fox News Digital: “The reason why voters approved proposals 11 and 20 were to guarantee public participation, equity and transparency in the way political cards are drawn. More than 35,000 Californians participated in the last process of redistribing because they have trusted changes through political manipulation. occasions for voters to weigh.

The trial was filed as an election committee of the California Assembly held on the push of the referendum on Tuesday. GOP legislators within the Committee and the Republicans who submitted comments to the panel have greatly criticized the effort to redepartmentalize the Democrats.

The State Republican Party, which welcomed the trial press conference, said that “the Californians voted to put the redistribution in the hands of the people, not politicians. What the Democrats are doing is a blatant takeover, and the Republican Party of California will fight it with each occasion to protect the votes of voters.”.

California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a congress redistribution event on August 14, 2025 in Los Angeles. (AP photo / Rich Pedroncelli)

“Their plan would tear the communities, would reduce the fact of silencing the contributions of the public and would erase the transparency that the voters demanded when they created the redistocking commission of citizens,” added Corrin Rankin, president of the Republican Party of California, in a statement at Fox News.

But Newsom this week argued that “California and the Californians were targeted only by the Trump administration, and we are not going to remain inactive while they order in Texas and other states to fuel the next elections to keep power – pursuing more extreme and unpopular policies”.

And last week, during an event revealing the de-cutting of Democrats in California, Newsom instructed: “Here we are open and simple before a vote was expressed during the mid-term elections of 2026 and here (Trump) tries once again to fuck the system.

Sanchez rejected Newsom’s framing to Fox News Digital. “These are not Texas. They are California voters and the choice they have already made,” she said. “In 2008 and 2010, the Californians adopted proposals 11 and 20 to create and develop an independent citizen redistribution commission. The two measures were adopted with strong support, Prop 20 of more than 61%, because people wanted to stop gerrymandering and withdraw the power of politicians. They voted for equity, transparency and responsibility. Of course, their voices are respected.”

Newsom is considered a probable competitor for the 2028 Democratic presidential appointment, and California’s GOP said that “Newsom launches its ghost presidential campaign trying to fake and steal the process of redistribution of independent citizens of California”.

The event of last week by Newsom also served as a collection of fundraising to increase the massive quantities of the campaign necessary to sell the redistribution thrust throughout the state in California.

The non -partisan redistribution commission, created over 15 years ago, remains popular with most Californians, according to the survey of public opinion.

This is why Newsom and the Democratic legislators of California promise not to completely remove the commission, but rather temporarily replacing it by the Legislative Assembly for the next three electoral cycles.

The proposed map was submitted by the campaign committee of the Democrat Congress.

And the former republican president of the Chamber, Kevin McCarthy, who represented a district of the congress in the California central valley for 17 years, argued in an appearance in “Sunday Morning Futures” of Fox News that “when you think of the way in which they have drawn these lines, there was no audition. There is no debate. California has no comments.

McCarthy, which helps direct the GOP fund collection effort to counter the Democrats of Newsom and California leading to the probable referendum this fall, said that “November 4 will be the election that people could really have a say”, as he underlined the polls showing strong support for the current non -supporter redistrict commission.

The pressure to temporarily replace the Commission is also opposed by other high -level Republicans. Among the most visible, there is the former governor. Arnold Schwarzenegger, The latest Republican elected Governor in California dominated by Democrats.

The longtime star of the Hollywood action says that he is mobilizing to oppose the push of Newsom to temporarily eliminate the non -partisan redistigation commission.

The Hollywood movie star and former republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in California is opposed to the pressure to temporarily replace the non -partisan red -cutting commission of the Golden State. (Tristar Media / Wireimage)

“I am preparing for the battle of the Gerrymandering,” wrote Schwarzenegger in an article on social networks on Friday, which included a photo of the former professional bodybuilding champion of the bodysuits lifting weights.

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Schwarzenegger, who has become world famous as a star of the film “The Terminator” four decades, wore a t-shirt in the photo That said “finish Gerrymandering”.

Schwarzenegger, during his governor mandate, played a main role in the adoption of constitutional amendments in California in 2008 and 2010 which took the power to draw legislative districts and the Congress of the States of politicians and placed them in the hands of an independent commission.