Filing for Congressional races begins in less than a week
With February 9 being the start date for candidates to file to run for Congress in California’s Congressional districts, the U.S. Supreme Court still has not acted on the application of the Plaintiff California GOP members for a Preliminary Injunction pending an appeal of the divided Three-Judge panel’s decision in Los Angeles finding Gavin Newson’s Proposition 50 gerrymander to be legal. If the Supreme Court were convinced to grant the application, the previous Congressional District lines of the nonpartisan commission would be used in the next election, and the lines would remain unchanged from prior elections this decade. But unless that happens, the new Proposition 50 lines, which are intended to drastically reduce Republican influence in California Congressional elections for the next three cycles, will be in place as a result of their adoption by voters in the last special election.
All necessary papers have now been filed with the Supreme Court and it is simply a matter of time when the Court will act on them. Papers filed include the Plaintiff CA GOP members’ request for the injunction and accompanying briefs, the U.S. Department of Justice’s excellent brief in support of the Plaintiffs, and Friend of the Court briefs in support of the Preliminary Injunction from the Public Interest Legal Foundation (a particularly good one citing strong case law previously overlooked), the America First Policy Institute, the Center for Election Confidence, and a group of individuals suing in a separate case involving Louisiana’s congressional lines. The California GOP Plaintiffs also filed a well-done “Reply” brief.
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Papers in opposition include the Response of the Newsom Defendants, and their Defendant-Intervenor allies League of United Latin American Citizens and the Democratic Congressional Committee, and a supporting Friend of the Court brief from liberal election law Professor Richard L. Hasen. (Fewer allies of the Newsom Defendants filed briefs in the Supreme Court than in the underling litigation in Los Angeles.)
Click here to read the full article at James V. Lacy’s Substack
Looks like the SCOTUS will side with California here and that is good news for democracy. Five more dem seats! That orange clown is trying to cheat by forcing Texas to gerrymander but now elections will be more “fair” since Newsom stood up to the orange man-baby. I would not worry though, the midterms will fix the pedo party right where it hurts.
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