Gov. Gavin Newsom’s launching of a November election to redraw the lines of California’s congressional seats to favor Democrats has created an ethical quandary within an unprecedented action. State voters already approved a less partisan way of drawing congressional borders. But now, to combat a Texas plan to redraw congressional lines to favor Republicans, Newsom is asking Californians to fight back by creating more congressional districts that favor Democrats.

We’ve never been here before. Combating undemocratic actions with more undemocratic actions is a political version of “burning down a village to save it.”

Letting voters decide this, however, may be the most democratic of the bad options before California and the nation.

Newsom had given President Donald Trump a manufactured dea

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