Obama backs Newsom's California redistricting plan
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Former President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he supported a proposal by California Democrats to redraw congressional lines in response to a Republican-led push in Texas to gain additional US House seats but expressed unease with the broader effects of political gerrymandering.
California's Democratic Legislature is expected to counter Texas' mid-decade redraw of its congressional map with one of its own.
Former President Barack Obama accused Lone Star State Republicans of seeking to engage in gerrymandering in "a power grab that undermines our democracy"