SCOTUS Sides With Newsom in Election War With ‘Loser’ Trump
The court is letting the maps drawn to favor Democrats in the midterms stand.
The Democratic-majority state of California scored a resounding victory against President Donald Trump when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld its redistricting for the midterm elections.
The conservative-majority Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican petition to block the implementation of these new districts, approved by voters in the nation’s most populous Democratic state. These districts were created in response to Texas’s redistricting, carried out at Trump’s behest, a move widely seen as an attempt to favor Republicans.
No justices dissented from this summary decision.
This ruling comes after the Supreme Court, in December, allowed Texas to retain its redistricting districts, which favored Republicans in the midterm elections, despite a lower court ruling that there was a risk of racial discrimination.
Newsom, who spearheaded redistricting efforts in his state ahead of the 2026 midterm elections in retaliation for Texas’s redistricting, welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision on X on Wednesday.
He wrote: “Donald Trump said he ‘deserved’ five more congressional seats for Texas. He started a redistricting war. He lost, and he will lose again in November.”
The new districts in California were redrawn with the aim of flipping up to five Republican seats to Democrats, in response to similar efforts in Texas to shift Democratic seats to Republicans.
Last year, Republican-majority Texas redrew its districts at Trump’s behest as he faced challenges in maintaining his slim majority in the House of Representatives in November.
