{"id":2658,"date":"2025-08-15T14:47:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/california\/?post_type=press&p=2658"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:47:48","slug":"common-cause-calls-for-adoption-of-fairness-criteria-in-ca-mid-decade-redistricting","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/california\/press\/common-cause-calls-for-adoption-of-fairness-criteria-in-ca-mid-decade-redistricting\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Calls for Adoption of Fairness Criteria in CA Mid-Decade Redistricting"},"template":"","class_list":["post-2658","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"The organization has established fairness criteria and offers California recommendations to ensure redistricting works for the people, not politicians","featured_image":"","press_type":157,"authors":"","related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"location":3},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"SACRAMENTO \u2013<\/b> Yesterday, Governor Gavin Newsom officially announced moving forward with mid-decade redistricting in California to counterbalance similar efforts in Texas. As the long-standing leader of people-powered redistricting reform in California, Common Cause urges Governor Newsom and the state Legislature to follow the organization\u2019s <\/span>established fairness criteria<\/span><\/a> for the re-drawing of maps to ensure that these efforts prioritize the full and fair representation of Californians.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nCommon Cause will not endorse partisan gerrymandering, even when its motive is to offset more extreme gerrymandering by a different party. However, a blanket condemnation in this moment would amount to a call for unilateral political disarmament in the face of authoritarian efforts to undermine fair representation and democracy.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nCommon Cause\u2019s position follows decades of advocacy against partisan gerrymandering, including taking <\/span>Common Cause v. Rucho<\/span><\/i> to the Supreme Court, drafting provisions in the Freedom to Vote Act to ban partisan gerrymandering, and championing independent redistricting commissions nationwide. California Common Cause was the lead author and proponent of the ballot initiatives that created the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. Independent redistricting commissions remain the gold standard for redistricting across the nation.<\/span>\r\n\r\nCommon Cause will not oppose mid-decade redistricting countermeasures that meet its fairness criteria. <\/span>With these criteria in mind, Common Cause offers the following recommendations for California's redistricting effort:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n