The California Republican Party sued Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) Wednesday in an attempt to block the state’s new congressional districts approved by voters hours earlier through a state-wide ballot measure.
Proposition 50, which passed by wide-margins Tuesday, will implement a Democratic-leaning map imperiling the seats of five Republican members of Congress.
Newsom championed the proposition, which temporarily suspends California’s independent redistricting commission, as a counter to Texas’ mid-decade Congressional map redraw.
The Wednesday lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California said California’s new maps are unconstitutional, violating the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause.
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