The ability to retaliate against Donald Trump ’s power grabs and other outrages is a rare pleasure for Democrats, which is why Gavin Newsom ’s counter-gerrymandering effort in California is so wildly popular among Democrats. If Democrats can’t stop Trump’s egregious policies in Congress (and they really can’t ) and the U.S. Supreme Court is either enabling him or slow-walking efforts to rein him in (which it clearly is ), then they need different arenas in which to contest his authoritarian ways. Since Trump chose to intervene in state-government prerogatives by ordering the Texas legislature to grab the GOP some new U.S. House districts, it made perfect sense for California to respond, even though it would require a constitutional amendment enacted via an insanely expensive

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