This seems to suggest that the conservative majority on the high court that approved Texas\u2019s map will also approve California\u2019s, which is being redrawn to give Democrats possibly five more congressional seats. When Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated<\/a> the Supreme Court ruling on X Thursday, Newsom\u2019s press office eagerly chimed<\/a> in, asking if the Justice Department would drop its lawsuit<\/a> against Newsom and the Golden State. <\/p>\n X screenshot Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice So you gonna drop your lawsuit against us right, Pam?<\/p>\n The DOJ\u2019s official account didn\u2019t seem to think the ruling applied to Democrats, posting in response<\/a>, \u201cNot a chance, Gavin\u2014we will stop your DEI districts for 2026.\u201d But that statement may not be how the Supreme Court sees it.<\/p>\n President Trump began the partisan gerrymandering wars<\/a> earlier this year when he urged Texas to redraw its maps, hoping to avert Republican losses in the 2026 midterms. His efforts to get other Republican-led states on board has not gone as well<\/a>. Meanwhile, California isn\u2019t the only Democratic-led state replying to Trump: Virginia is now beginning plans to redraw its maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Governor Gavin Newsom has reason to be optimistic about congressional redistricting in his state after a Supreme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,2926,9,8,16968,457,47199,33314,2214,564],"class_list":["post-83009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-governor","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-congressional-redistricting","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-justice-samuel-alito","tag-racial-gerrymandering","tag-supreme-court","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"X](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a48228e2ef1f04adf4152ea053f86eb5.jpeg\"\/)
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