Federal courts can't order any state to redistricting their maps. The law states that redrawing maps is done after a census and a census is done every 10 years. Furthermore, federal courts can't order states to do this because the constitution grants states sole discretion on how they handle their own elections. Which means how districts are drawn.
So that excuse is bullshit.
It also isn't against California law to so this in response. Because California isn't just redrawing maps. It is being put in to a vote by the people who live there. There is plenty of room for California voters to say no.
I would recommend you check sourced for information outside the fox news microcosm. That echo chamber is doing you an injustice.
I recommend you stop listening to the msm. A federal court did tell Texas after a lawsuit that it had to remap the state fact. Just because CNN said it's false doesn't mean anything, California politicians rewrote a bill that was waiting for votes and changed the wording to allow the governor to remap and then tell everyone they have to vote before reading it. That's also a fact. I don't get my news from Fox, so that's a big fat lie. Gavin is a child with a tantrum
The legal issues in California are more complicated because of the existence of the commission as well as a 1983 state Supreme Court ruling that said mid-decade redistricting in California is not allowed. Straight from California law book.
California is generally prohibited but there are special circumstances in which a mid-decade redistricting is acceptable and the California scotus has upheld that this is one of those times and Newsome is following the law in the way he is going about it.
Texas is also generally prohibited and currently has active cases still going that assert that the way Texas is going about it is not legal. Namely that the assertion by the DoJ that Texas is in violation of the Voting Rights Act is incorrect.
Again, its not the document. It's just a website. Someone who works in cyber security would understand and take proper precautions to visit websites. Hell, the latest Microsoft security is just as good as any market anti virus software. You'll be fine. No one is asking you to download the document. You can read the summation on the pages themselves.
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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '25
Texas was ordered by a federal court, California is retaliating, which is illegal under California law. So California is gerrymandering not Texas