Aug. 25 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump said Monday he is planning to sue California over its planned congressional maps and blue slips used in that state and others to allow home-state U.S. senators to veto nominees to district courts and U.S. attorneys' offices.
Last week, after Texas changed its maps to favor Republicans with five additional seats, California's Democratic-controlled legislature redrew its maps, though those will face voter approval in November. A non-partisan commission currently redraws California's maps.
The U.S. House midterms are in 2026.
"I think I'm going to be filing a lawsuit pretty soon, and I think we're going to be very successful in it," Trump said in the Oval Office with South Korean President Kim Lee Jae Myung. "We're going to [be] filing it through the Department of Justice. That's going to happen."
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said his state only acted after Texas' actions, posted on X: "BRING IT."
