Gov. Gavin Newsom with Texas Democrats. (Photo: CA Press office)
Gavin Newsom Sends Strongly Worded Letter to President Trump re: Redistricting
Newsom is playing a stupid game of legal chicken with the President
By Katy Grimes, August 11, 2025 11:18 am
“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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A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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“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.”
You’ll notice that the mainstream media and Democrats never mention this.
Opinion:
This is a fund raiser for Newsom and the DNC to capture all of the money they can get from the (many?) billionaires that despise Trump.
As Katy has said before all they have is to run on is “hate Trump”.
I guess they weren’t paying attention to the results of the MAGA movement in the last election.
Hit tip for Governor Short Pants- you will be more effective if you ball up your fists like a 90 y.o. Dementia patient and screech like Shrillary. 😉
Hey Governor Gavin Dumbfnck – the U.S. is a Constitutional Republic, NOT a “Democracy”, and ESPECIALLY not “Our Democracy (TM)”
Go pound sand…
At first people who suffer under this horse’s ass think Gavin Newsom is an incompetent idiot. Over time they realize he is a bald-faced liar and a skunk who has literally no other goal except to serve his own ambitions, which ambitions are apparently to preen in the spotlight, spew nonsense-talk, gesture with his jazz hands, and destroy the country as he has destroyed California. Good luck, Newsom, and enjoy your liquor! Might as well because your plans and schemes are doomed to failure.
This will not end well for Newsom. As a lame duck Governor, he “doesn’t have the cards.”
The issue is highly partisan and the law is not on his side. Lawsuits will be filed. He forces each candidate for Governor to take a stand on this even though it’s divisive to the extreme. A rebuke will sink his presidential aspirations.
”Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
Under Gavin’s objections, the illegal ineligible voters are being deported. Sanctuary cities that fostered drug infested homeless camps, human trafficking, criminal cartels and money laundering to dominate Democrat control in California are NOT WHAT THE FOUNDERS ENVISIONED.
This governor refers to The Founders?
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.
So where is the CAGOP? Don’t Republicans have standing to sue for adequate representation, voter ID, same day voting, and paper ballots?
The California Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments will be holding a special informational hearing entitled “Voter Identification in California” on Tuesday, August 26th at 9:30 AM.
Not surprisingly CAGOP is MIA? It’s disappointing, but it seems that CAGOP’s new Chairwoman Corrin Raskin, Vice Chair John Park, Secretary Sayrs Morris are all establishment RINOs who will thwart the MAGA/MAHA agenda? CAGOP leaders are probably plotting with their Democrat cronies to ensure California has even less GOP representation?
CAGOP should be renamed CAGOPJOKE. All they do is beg for money to pay themselves to do NOTHING. They couldn’t market a glass of water to someone who has been in Death Valley for a week in August with no provisions. This state is being run over by the Democrats, and CAGOP says “Run us over. We don’t want to offend anyone.”
There more I see of Newsom’s antics, the more I am reminded of a jalopy load of circus clowns chasing each other around in the ring with seltzer bottles, firecrackers and rubber mallets.
So is Newsom attempting to interfere with a Federal Court? The same day as his letter, the US District Court in El Paso paused redistricting litigation until “the law in this area becomes more settled”, because: “The viability of several claims in this case may now depend on whether the Texas Legislature enacts redistricting legislation in its current Called Session or a subsequent legislative session, the Supreme Court’s pending decisions . . . , and whether the plaintiffs seek . . . certiorari in Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Howe.” This Order was signed by Federal Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith on August 11, 2025. See, LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS, v. ABBOTT, [Case No.] EP-21-CV-00259-DCG-JES-JVB. Gavin should know that litigation always may require a state to redistrict in the middle of a decade. Tip of the hat to comment of “Protect Freedom”.
Doesn’t Gavin look fierce. I bet he’s been waiting for a moment like this to bust out the extra angry hand motions and to pontificate even harder.