The redistricting of U.S. House seats is supposed to be a once-a-decade event. But the super-tight partisan margins in the House have broken that norm. Right now, Republicans have a 219-to-212 majority, with four vacancies.

Texas is debating a new map that could create more GOP seats from the Lone Star State. Republicans now hold 25 of the 38 congressional districts.

Now, California Governor Gavin Newsom is threatening to call a special legislative session to pass an “urgency measure” to draw a new Congressional map. The goal would be to squeeze out two to five of the state’s last nine GOP House incumbents.

In 2010, California voters gave the power to draw congressional districts to an independent redistricting commission. Though Democrats dominate California, the commission is made up of five Democrats, five Republicans, and four commissioners who are unaffiliated.

Newsom has another scheme to allow the legislature to create its own maps and ignore the existence of the commission.

Even some Democrats say that’s a Magic Marker they can’t touch. “I understand we want to recapture the House,” Bay Area Assemblyman Alex Lee says. “I don’t believe cheating the elections and making elections a sham is the right way to go.”