California GOP asks Supreme Court to weigh in, block Prop. 50

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- California Republicans are turning their hopes to Washington arsenic they inquire the highest tribunal successful the onshore to artifact Proposition 50, a voter-approved measurement to marque California's legislature representation favour Democrats aft Texas tipped the scales for Republicans there.

"An reply sooner than aboriginal volition assistance everybody out," Assemblymember David Tangipa told Action News.

The Clovis Republican is starring the lawsuit. At the halfway of the ineligible challenge, Tangipa argues, is the "intent" down California's caller legislature maps.

"The mapmaker himself made the assertion that the archetypal happening helium did erstwhile drafting these maps was make a Latino bulk district," Tangipa said. "So if the idiosyncratic who created the maps said the archetypal happening they did was a race-based redistricting, helium violated the Constitution."

But little courts person disagreed. Last week, a three-judge sheet successful Los Angeles ruled Republicans "failed to amusement that radical gerrymandering occurred."

"This was not a three-to-zero throw-out lawsuit (where) we had nary standing," Tangipa said. "This truly was a divided tribunal lawsuit that truly looked two-to-one."

Now, Republicans are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to measurement successful connected an exigency basis.

"Take it existent quick, truthful you tin perceive this lawsuit due to the fact that it is of captious importance," Action News Legal Analyst Tony Capozzi said of the attempt.

It volition beryllium up to a azygous justice, Elena Kagan, to determine if Prop. 50 should beryllium blocked arsenic the ineligible lawsuit plays out.

"What the plaintiffs are asking for is thing close present to happen," Capozzi said. "I would beryllium precise amazed if the Supreme Court did that."

The ineligible back-and-forth comes conscionable months earlier the midterms, with superior races acceptable for June.

Tangipa says helium intends to support fighting. But Democrats, similar Fresno's Lonny Johnson, accidental Prop. 50 is settled.

"The radical of California voted connected this," Johnson said. "They voted overwhelmingly for it, and they supported it."

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