Politics & Government
Legal Challenges to Redistricting Rejected
The Los Angeles Times reports that a legal challenge has been rejected for a redistricting plan that reconfigures electoral boundaries in the state legislature and Congress.
A Republican-backed lawsuit against the state's redistricting process was rejected by the California Supreme Court on Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The redistricting process was undertaken by the California Citizens Redistricting Committee, a group created by a 2008 ballot measure, and was completed in August. Republican groups have said that the plans were designed to take away GOP seats in the state Senate and Congress and vowed to undo the plan by legal challenge or referendum.
Locally, the plans will mean some big changes for San Marino: the details can be .
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The lawsuit dismissal makes it increasingly likely that the maps drawn up by the committee will be the ones Californians will vote in for the 2012 election.
However, according to the Times, the GOP is still trying to put together a state referendum to overturn the plan, a possibility that GOP officials .
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The Times article says that officials have until Nov. 13 to gather enough signatures to put the plan on the ballot, and much of the funding for the signature-gathering drive has come from a $1-million donation from Mercury Insurance Chairman George Joseph.
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