Democratic lawmakers and governors in key blue states are weighing whether to redraw their own congressional maps as Texas Republicans advance a mid-decade redistricting effort backed by President Donald Trump.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has publicly said he’s considering a special session or legislative maneuver to redraw the state’s House districts, calling Texas’s move “a whole other level of weaponization” of the redistricting process.
“If we’re going to play fair in a world that is wholly unfair, we may have the higher moral ground, but the ground is shifting from underneath us. And I think we have to wake up to that reality,” Newsom said on the “Pod Save America” podcast earlier this month….