"President Donald Trump is responsible for the noxious redistricting war currently festering in multiple states. For weeks this summer, he hectored Republican lawmakers in Texas to find him five more House seats before next year's midterms, and they scurried to do just that. But that doesn't mean Democrats are the only ones upset about the situation. Which is why I reached out to the handful of California Republicans most likely to lose their House seats if their Democratic-controlled state chases Texas down the redistricting tracks."
"Gerrymandering is a big problem wherever it occurs. It's a plague on democracy, Kevin Kiley, who represents California's 3rd Congressional District, said. It's especially bad happening in the middle of the decade, he said, when partisanship is literally the only purpose. What we have right now — this domino effect or this redistricting war of mutually assured destruction — that's just total chaos, he added. Where, Kiley asked, does this end?"
"Looking to clap back at Texas, Gov. Gavin Newsom is spearheading a plan for his state's Democratic-led Legislature to engage in some retaliatory gerrymandering. In a Nov. 4 special election, voters will decide on Proposition 50, a measure that would sideline the state's independent redistricting commission and make way for a new map proposed by the Legislature to add Democratic seats."
President Donald Trump pressured Texas Republicans to create five additional House seats, triggering a redistricting escalation across multiple states. Texas Republicans produced new maps, prompting California Democrats to plan retaliatory redistricting through Proposition 50 to temporarily sideline the independent commission and add Democratic seats. The measure would restore commission authority after the 2030 census. California Republicans such as Kevin Kiley describe mid-decade redistricting as partisan, chaotic, and politically existential, and Kiley introduced federal legislation to outlaw mid-decade redistricting nationwide. Republicans fear districts will be split and constituencies sliced, intensifying a domino effect labeled mutually assured destruction by some lawmakers.
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