Critics argue Newsom's closed-door redistricting scheme violates California's constitution and threatens the state's democratically decided redistricting process.

The gambit has triggered a national redistricting war, with governors of both parties threatening to initiate similar efforts in other states.

That has changed this week, though, with Obama stepping in to defend California's Governor, Gavin Newsom, who has been in a war of words with the current POTUS. Obama has shown his support for the ...

California Democrats proposed a redistricting plan that would conceivably take five congressional seats away from Republicans.

The California Senate is acting on a redistricting effort led by Governor Gavin Newsom to counter a Republican plan in Texas that aims to flip Democratic seats to Republican. This action is in ...

Republican legislators in California announced Wednesday that they are sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice and ...

California's Democratic Legislature is expected to counter Texas' mid-decade redraw of its congressional map with one of its ...

California Supreme Court denies Republicans' request to intervene and slow down Democrats' redistricting legislation, which the legislature is expected to pass on the floor Thursday.

The approval of the Texas maps on an 88-52 party-line vote is likely to prompt California’s Democratic-controlled state Legislature this week to approve of a new House map creating five new Democratic ...