Zoran Mondami

Newsom just laughs at that.

He's going for the presidency in 2028.

Two things, two things.

Number one,

If the president, you know, California very well You're also a great lawyer if the president called you tonight and said Joel What do I do here by getting her meet Dylan and the Justice Department on top of this?

What's your recommendation to the president?

Well, I think you've got to make an urgent appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States because you could make the argument.

And in fact, Harmeet Dhillon's old law firm in California did make the argument that what Newsom did violated the California Constitution and probably also the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

And I'll explain how very briefly.

Voters passed a referendum in 2008 to take the power away from politicians and put it in the hands of this independent redistricting commission, which was supposed to represent the people directly.

What the politicians did in passing this map through the legislature before the voters had reversed the independent commission

That meant that they were effectively usurping the powers of the commission unconstitutionally and unlawfully.

Now, they'll say, well, we won by a blowout margin.

We passed Proposition 50.

The voters clearly want this.

So who cares if we did it unlawfully?

The voters have spoken.

And a court might have sympathy for that, might not want to intervene.

Maybe the Supreme Court would decline to hear the case because Proposition 50 wins.

But the fact is, the reason voters acted as they did in 2008 was to stop the elected politicians