The California Republican Party announced an emergency court challenge to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to cast aside the congressional map drawn by the state’s independent commission in favor of a partisan one.
According to the California GOP, Newsom’s plan is illegal and unconstitutional, for several reasons: it violates a 30-day requirement for the posting of new legislation; it violates the state’s existing, independent system for drawing congressional districts; it violates the state constitution by redrawing districts between Census years; and it will ask the voters to approve multiple legal questions within a single referendum in November.
It is unclear whether the Republican challenge will succeed. Already, the California Supreme Court allowed Newsom to proceed with the legislative bills to impose the new congressional map despite
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