Just hours after Gavin Newsom\u2019s so-called Election Rigging Act \u2014 also known as Proposition 50 \u2014 squeaked through (while ballots were still being counted, naturally), the California Republican Party and 19 individual plaintiffs dropped the hammer.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve filed a lawsuit against Newsom and Secretary of State Shirley Weber, demanding that the Prop 50 maps be thrown out. The suit argues that the maps blatantly violate the 14th and 15th Amendments by being drawn \u201cbased on race, specifically to favor Hispanic voters, without cause or evidence to justify it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other words, Democrats gerrymandered the state, and they\u2019re not even pretending otherwise. This isn\u2019t about \u201crepresentation\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s about rigging the board before the game even starts.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, and plaintiffs are demanding an immediate injunction to block the state from using Gavin Newsom\u2019s blatantly partisan Prop 50 maps while the case moves through the courts.<\/p>\n
Attorney Mark Meuser of the Dhillon Law Group laid it out clearly at a morning press conference: this fight is on the fast track. He expects a hearing on the injunction within weeks and says whichever side loses will likely appeal straight to the Supreme Court. But time is short \u2014 a ruling must come down before December 19, when candidates begin pulling papers.<\/p>\n