Gavin Newsom Sends Strongly Worded Letter to President Trump re: Redistricting

“If you will not stand down, I will be forced to lead an effort to redraw the maps in California to offset the rigging of maps in red states,” California Governor Gavin Newsom says in a strongly worded letter threatening the President of the United States.

Whoa. Not a strongly worded letter. Them’s fighting words.

Newsom claims Trump is “playing with fire,” an odd choice of words given the 13 fires currently burning in Gov. Newsom’s California.

Newsom claims Trump is “risking the destabilization of democracy.”

“Pot, meet kettle.” Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attempt to perform redistricting mid-decade is a violation of the California Constitution.

In 2008 the people took the redistricting power away from the politicians by voting for an independent citizens’ commission to draw the electoral districts – every 10 years and only attached to the once-a-decade U.S. Census. That is what California’s redistricting law says.

In an effort to influence the midterm elections, California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta announced intentions to blow up California’s independent redistricting commission, effectively tampering with the state’s electoral maps mid-decade… because TRUMP.

The maps are embedded below.

Newsom made this announcement as Texas continues with their current legal plans for a mid-decade redistricting.

Gov. Newsom plans to redraw electoral district boundaries for the state’s members of the U.S. House of Representatives. However, California is currently very gerrymandered already, even with the state’s supposed “fair-representation” California Citizens Redistricting Commission known as “We Draw The Lines.”

California Republicans are still underrepresented in Congress, thanks to many years of one-party rule by redistricting.

California Republicans have 40% of the vote, but only 6% representation of the state’s 52 elected members of Congress, with 43 Democrats and 9 Republicans.

Newsom wants to take away another 6 seats taking Republican representation down to 3%.

His plan is pure politics, of course benefitting him. He’s running for President and this is a move to signal Democrats that he’s fighting Donald Trump on their behalf. However, even if Gavin Newsom succeeds in removing 6 more California Republican members of Congress, there is a bigger problem.

Just as with California, blue states are already so heavily gerrymandered there really isn’t much gerrymandering left to benefit Democrats.

As Charlie Kirk posted on X:

What Democrats are really afraid of: 1) Redoing the Census and properly counting state populations 2) Removing illegals from the count If it’s war he wants, it’s war he’ll get.

California Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Hilton announced last week that if Gavin Newsom and Rob Bonta move ahead with their redistricting plan, he will sue them in federal court. The law is on Hilton’s side, and not on Gavin Newsom’s.

He said that Gov. Newsom and AG Bonta know it is unconstitutional to seize redistricting power from the people and give it back to politicians – for one or two election cycles.

Article XXI of the California Constitution says:

In the year following the year in which the national census is taken under the direction of Congress at the beginning of each decade, the Citizens Redistricting Commission described in Section 2 shall adjust the boundary lines of the congressional, State Senatorial, Assembly, and Board of Equalization districts (also known as “redistricting”) in conformance with the following standards and process set forth in Section 2.^[1]

 But Newsom is conflating his desires to win the midterm elections with actual federal law and Texas’ working to bring its districts in line with federal law and court decisions.

Last month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott added redistricting to the 2025 state agenda, because the U.S. Department of Justice raised legal concerns over the constitutionality of four districts in the state over where district lines were redrawn in 2021 following the heavily manipulated 2020 Census.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon sent a letter to Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton, identifying four Texas congressional districts as “unconstitutional racially based” gerrymanders. These so-called coalition districts (combining minority groups like Blacks and Hispanics) were found not protected under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act based on the 2024 5th Circuit ruling in Petteway v. Galveston County, Hans Von Spakovsky explains.

“When Texas drew its coalition districts in 2021, it impermissibly used race and ethnicity as the predominant factor in drawing the boundary lines. That makes those four districts unconstitutional because they violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, the ‘one person, one vote’ standard—meaning they must be redrawn.”

“California cannot stand idly by as this power grab unfolds,” Gov. Newsom warns in his strongly worded letter. Newsom then tells the President to “stand down.”

Another “pot, meet kettle” moment for the effete Gavin Newsom. California has been terribly gerrymandered by Democrats for years – even through the supposedly independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, as the Globe reported last week.

“California started it. Democrats hijacked and corrupted the ‘independent’ districting system, to gerrymander the maps and give themselves TWELVE more House seats than they would have with fair representation,” Hilton told the Globe, which is exactly what we reported Monday.

Newsom is playing a stupid game of legal chicken with the President, and Newsom will lose.

Here is Gov. Newsom’s silly letter to President Trump:

Here are California’s Congressional district map. Every district is included:

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