The left sees President Donald Trump's attempted takeover of Washington law enforcement as part of a multifront march to autocracy — “vindictive authoritarian rule,” as one activist put it — and as an extraordinary thing to do in rather ordinary times on the streets of the capital.

California has its own plan to combat the Trump administration’s national redistricting efforts. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the Election Rigging Response Act Thursday, a Democratic gerrymandering plan intended to offset efforts to strip liberal areas around the country of their electoral votes.

"Today is Liberation Day in the state of California," Gavin Newsom proclaimed today in downtown LA of the legislative effort to stop Donald Trump from "rigging the system" with gerrymandering and other blows against American democracy.