Newsom, who enjoys a Democratic super-majority in both houses of the state legislature, ultimately seeks voter support of his plan - neutralizing a Trump-backed Texas bill designed to flip five Democratic seats to Republican control in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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.

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

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Democratic Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier returned to the Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the building because she wouldn't sign a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety.