REDDING, Calif. — The US Supreme Court announced Wednesday morning they were rejecting California Republicans’ bid to overturn the state’s new election districts. The five justices unanimously voted to reject the appeal from Republicans, though they provided no reasoning.
The week before, the court upheld the Texas redistricting maps, saying that the goal of the maps was clearly political, making them constitutional.
State Assemblyman James Gallagher had led the charge in challenging state Democrats’ maps after Governor Newsom proposed the idea of Prop 50.
Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher speaks in opposition to Democrats’ plan to advance a partisan effort to redraw California congressional map at a press conference on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Tran Nguyen)
Now, he said his focus turns to taking over for the recently passed Doug LaMalfa in DC in an upcoming special election. He received the endorsement from President Donald Trump on Wednesday for the seat. Within California, he shared that he plans to continue pushing for the creation of a new state.
I think there need to be a lot of conversations in the Northern counties about whether or not it’s time for us to move forward with something because we have been denied our most fundamental right.
Gallagher emphasized that the mechanisms are there to make it happen. There has only been one instance in America’s history of a new state forming off a current one, West Virginia, during the Civil War.
He says in the meantime, the best thing conservative Northstate voters can do to get their voices heard is go out and vote.
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