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Federal Judge Jerry Edwin Smith delivered a blistering dissent against fellow jurist Jeffrey Vincent Brown, condemning Brown’s 160‑page injunction blocking Texas’s 2025 redistricting map as “a Nobel Prize for Fiction” and “the most outrageous conduct” he has seen in nearly four decades on the bench. Smith’s rebuke came as the Supreme Court stepped in with an administrative stay, halting Brown’s ruling that found Texas racially gerrymandered its new congressional districts.

A Utah judge’s decision to pick a map that creates a Democrat-leaning district without approval by the state legislature has led many Republicans to cry “judicial activism.”

Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish posted a video in support of Proposition 50, the referendum Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is using to gerrymander California’s congressional districts — and to disenfranchise Republicans.

A new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) indicates that 56% of likely voters support Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50, which would gerrymander the state’s congressional map to help Democrats.

During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) dismissed a claim from host Jake Tapper to suggest Republicans were to blame for the national political battles over redistricting.

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) claimed that only Republicans have initiated “partisan gerrymandering.”

Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50 is a danger not just for California or Republicans, but for everyone.

Janai Nelson, a lawyer for the NAACP, argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it is necessary to have a second majority-black district in Louisiana because “white Democrats were not voting for black candidates whether they Democrats or not.”

Former President Barack Obama and California Governor Gavin Newsom are urging Californians to vote in favor of Proposition 50, a ballot measure that would replace the state’s independent redistricting system with a legislature-approved map projected to eliminate several Republican-held congressional districts.

A California voter approached Breitbart News after receiving two mail-in ballots — both for the same name at the same address — for the upcoming special election to gerrymander California’s congressional districts.

Billionaire Tom Steyer has donated $12 million to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) gerrymandering effort, after a failed presidential run and an effort to push the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) whined Wednesday that President Donald Trump has ignored his request for $40 billion in fire aid — after launching a $250 million special election to strip Republican House seats.

The majority of California voters seem poised to support Proposition 50 — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s effort to redraw congressional district boundaries to strip Republicans of their seats and defy the state constitution.

The Democratic National Committee is entering the campaign for Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s effort to gerrymander the California congressional map to flip five Republican seats to Democrats.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) changed the name of his gerrymandering rally from “FAFO” (for “F*ck Around and Find Out”) to “Yes on 50,” named for Proposition 50, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is leading the fundraising effort for Democrats’ effort to create new gerrymandered districts in California — while fire victims struggle to find money to rebuild their homes.

President Donald Trump congratulated Missouri state legislators for passing a bill to adopt new district lines that, if signed into law, likely would net House Republicans an additional seat.

Underachieving Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) is using video of his detainment by Secret Service agents when he rushed Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to push for partisan gerrymandering in California.

Effectively, California’s highest judges allowed the legislature to seize the power to draw congressional districts away from voters, even after the voters amended the constitution to prevent them from doing so.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is reportedly refusing to recognize one of his predecessors, Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), with a key state honor because of his objection to Newsom’s gerrymandering push.

The California Republican Party announced an emergency court challenge to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to cast aside the congressional map drawn by the state’s independent commission in favor of a partisan one.

Reality TV show star Spencer Pratt highlighted several of California Democrat Gavin Newsom’s many failures and he is taking the fight straight to the governor and likely 2028 Democrat candidate for president.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) hopes to turn a special election in November on his gerrymandered congressional map into a referendum on President Donald Trump, rather than on his own partisan ambition.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed legislation Thursday evening to create new congressional maps designed by the Democrat-dominated legislature to eliminate half of the state’s Republican-held seats.

The California Supreme Court, dominated six-to-one by Democratic appointees, rejected a Republican challenge to the legality of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) attempt to redraw the state’s congressional districts Wednesday.

Former President Barack Obama supports Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gerrymandering plan in opposition to Republicans in Texas.

Four California Republicans filed an emergency petition Monday at the California Supreme Court to stop Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats from calling a special election to approve a new congressional map.

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” California State Assembly Majority Leader Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D) said that she believes Democrats can pick up more than five seats through redrawing California’s maps because “The budget that was shown to us from the

California Gov. Gavin Newsom angrily demanded information Sunday about a U.S. Border Patrol raid outside a rally in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday during his rally to gerrymander the state’s congressional seats.

California voters oppose Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) plan to redraw congressional districts and gerrymander in favor of Democrats, rather than preserving the existing “independent” commission that draws district maps.

Former President Barack Obama took to Zoom to cheerlead a group of Texas Democrat legislators for bolting from the Lone Star State to try to sabotage a redistricting bill.

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to gerrymander California’s congressional districts will eliminate at least four Republican-held districts, while securing Democratic control of four other contested seats.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” CNN Senior Political and Global Affairs Commentator, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, former Obama Chief of Staff, and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel acknowledged that Illinois is a heavily gerrymandered state and admitted “I