The California Supreme Court will not prevent Democrats from moving forward Thursday with a plan to redraw congressional districts.

Republicans in the Golden State had asked the state’s high court to step in and temporarily block the redistricting efforts, arguing that Democrats — who are racing to put the plan on the ballot later this year — had skirted a rule requiring state lawmakers to wait at least 30 days before passing newly introduced legislation.

But in a ruling late Wednesday, the court declined to act, writing that the Republican state lawmakers who filed the suit had “failed to meet their burden of establishing a basis for relief at this time.”

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    2 days ago

    It is essentially the highest crime that can be committed against a democracy

    America isn’t really a democracy…

    We keep saying it is, but it’s not

    In order to get the numbers in the current system to replace it with a more democratic system, shit like this needs to happen.

    That’s the only way to “fix” the current system, to replace it