Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50 creates problems for – Latest News
Gavin Newsom spent a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} that California doesn’t have when he handed Proposition 50 to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts, drawing Republicans out of workplace.
Then he backed an effort in Virginia to do the identical — despite the fact that “moderate” Democrat Abigail Spanberger had made a particular marketing campaign promise final yr to not gerrymander the districts.
On Friday, Virginia’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s new map, which might have taken an evenly divided congressional delegation (six Democrats, 5 Republicans) and skewed it 10-to-1 for Democrats.
But right here’s the place Democrats actually misplaced.
Gavin Newsom spent a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} that California doesn’t have when he handed Proposition 50 to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts, drawing Republicans out of workplace. Getty Images
Newsom solid Proposition 50 as a response to an effort to redraw the congressional map in Texas to favor Republicans by eliminating a number of Democrat-held seats.
Never thoughts that the Department of Justice had suggested that these Texas seats, drawn particularly to signify racial minorities, had been doubtless unconstitutional.
Newsom used the chance to do what Democrats have long wished to do in California, and threw out the unbiased redistricting commission (briefly, he says) in favor of a partisan course of managed totally by the dominant celebration.
He didn’t even wait for the Texas legislature to vote on its map earlier than shifting Proposition 50 ahead.
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After California voters handed Proposition 50, the perimeters had been even. Texas had doubtless eradicated 4 Democrat seats; California had doubtless eradicated the identical quantity. That ought to have led to a truce.
But Democrats couldn’t help themselves, and went to the intense in Virginia, decided to grab control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November, doubtless with the intent of impeaching President Donald Trump (again).
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So Republican-run states that had stayed on the sidelines jumped in. Florida, for instance, swiftly handed a new congressional map that can doubtless see Democrats lose 4 seats.
Now the Democrats’ map in Virginia has been thrown out. And it’s more likely to keep that means, because the Supreme Court is mostly reluctant to intervene in redistricting battles within state legislatures.
But the Republican districts that had been created after the Virginia debacle aren’t being undone.
So for all of the gloating that Gavin Newsom did, right here and in different states, after Proposition 50 handed, he and Democrats now face the prospect of probably dropping seats within the midterms.
Instead of main his celebration in a accountable direction, he disenfranchised California voters and led Democrats into a cul-de-sac.
When Democrats need to know whom in charge, look up a Sacramento deal with.
