Ca go is judging to stop the Newsom redistribution. Will Trump follow?

From Maya K. Miller and Alexey KossefCalmness

This story was originally published by CalmattersS Register about their ballots.

Fresh from their unsuccessful attempt to kill the government. Gavin NewsomThe redistributive plan in the Democrats-controlled legislative power, the California Republicans and the anti-Barimander groups this week has begun to defeat what they consider to be unconstitutional issue of voting.

Moreover, Republican legislators, many of whom lacked Democrats in the fiery speeches on the floor last week, stressed that independent redistribution should be a non -party affair. A few uniform President Donald Trump is slightly disputed To summon their colleagues in the Red countries, to redirect cards for political profit. And several brought a new case against the Newsom administration on Monday, their second in a week.

But despite their best effort, California Republicans I cannot completely separate Trump from the battle for redistribution, a battle that the president began earlier this summer Gerimander in Texas To take advantage of GOP. On Monday, the president continually threatened to sue California to stop Newsom’s plan.

“Well, I think I will bring the case very soon and I think we will be very successful in it,” Trump said in the oval office. “We will submit it through the Ministry of Justice. This will happen.”

The opposition campaign has already landed in the mailboxes of many Californians and social emissions. The printed pamphlets, paid by Republican operating persons and good governance, began to arrive last Thursday, the same day when the Newsom announced the special election on November 4 on its proposal to temporarily suspend the state’s independent staff and instead use Gerrymandered Maps, attracted by democrats.

“We cannot save democracy by burning it in California,” said four pages, funded mainly by Charles T. Minger Jr., the main financial supporter of the 2010 initiative, which created the redistribution committee.

A different pamphlet on a single page paid by An organization headed by the former state chairman of the Republican Party Jessica Milan Patterson warned readers of “catching political power” and told voters to “say” no to “non -constitutional Gerimander”.

But even if they hit Newsom and the Democrats for “catching political power”, California Republicans are working to preserve their criticism closely focused on the circumvention of the independent redistribution committee in California, not openly criticizing Trump’s request from the Red countries.

“This should not be Gavin Newsom vs. Trump. This should not be California against Texas,” said Corinine Rankin, chairman of the California Republican Party, at a press conference that announces to The Last Lawiut filed at the Supreme Court in CaliforniaS “It must be what is in the best interest of the Californians and what is in the best interest of the Californians is to determine who is.”

Gop lost once in court

Four Republican legislators, with the help of an assistant law firm of Prosecutor General Harmeet Dcylon, filed a lawsuit against the state to remove the newly made proposal 50 of the newsletter. They claim that prop. 50 violates the state rule that all voting issues adhere to one subject – a common tactic for opponents of voting measures. And once again, they insist that democratic legislators have violated many procedural steps in their hurrying to place Gerrymandered Maps before the approval voters.

California’s Supreme Court refused The group’s first legal challenge last week. The group’s leading lawyer claims that the conditions are different now when the elections are officially scheduled and the proposal is planned for the newsletter.

Newsom’s campaign mocked the last challenge of Republicans and said it would fail.

“Trump’s Todi have already been destroyed once in court. Now they are trying again – to protect Trump’s power and prevent voters from having their word on Prop 50,” Hannah Milgrom, a campaign spokesman, said in a statement. “They will lose.”

Is Trump seriously judging?

It is not clear how seriously to take Trump’s remarks that he will judge California. They were prompted by a reporter – which Trump was repaired to refer to the governor through his frequent nickname Gavin Newscum – and the president did not offer more details.

The White House did not answer questions by email about the legal basis or time line for a case. Natalie Baldasarre, a spokesman for the US Department of Justice, declined to comment.

The potential lawsuit is also not coordinated with the California Republican Party, according to Rankin, who would not say whether it welcomed Trump’s intervention.

“I’m not going to overtake the president,” she said. “This is a question for the future.”

But even the ability to participate in Trump can point to the campaign for support 50, which has so far monitored in polls. A study published last week by the UC Berkeley Government Research Institute, and Los Angeles Times found that the measure leads to 48% to 32% of the likely voters.

Anti-Trump Resistance has been a powerful political message in California for a decade. In 2021, Newsom defeated his efforts to remind him in part by office by making the election For Californians’ dislike for TrumpS

Whether or not the president follows his threat from a case, Newsom already has a tangible opportunity to put a proposal 50 as California against Trump and to return his successful gaming book to beat the withdrawal. He quickly responded to the President’s comment on a legal challenge with Post all drops on social media: “Bring it.”

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