California Democrats are taking up their proposed constitutional amendment to temporarily redraw their congressional maps, hours after Republicans in the Texas House passed new maps of their own.

The former president lent his support to Gov. Gavin Newsom's retaliatory redistricting plan shortly before Republicans in Texas passed their bill to redraw congressional lines.

In a direct counter to Texas, California Democrats, led by Governor Gavin Newsom, are scheduled to pass a new congressional map to create up to five new winnable seats. However, California’s process is more complex than Texas’s.

Hours before California lawmakers begin voting on legislation that would launch a statewide special election on redistricting, state leaders have still not figured out exactly how much they plan to spend on it.

California state Democrats are pushing new redistricting efforts as a new Trump-backed congressional map makes its way through the Texas legislature.

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Republican legislators to block Governor Gavin Newsom's plan to redraw the state's congressional map. GOP lawmakers had asked the court to intervene,

Battles over redistricting in Texas and California are making national headlines, but only one state is required to redraw its maps this year: Ohio.

Former President Barack Obama waded in to support California Democrats tit-for-tat efforts to more extremely gerrymander the states congressional lines "as a responsible approach" to counter Texas efforts at redrawing its own maps.