At the Lectern :

California Republicans today filed a second writ petition — Sanchez v. Weber — in the Supreme Court seeking to prevent the electorate from voting in November to temporarily redraw the state’s congressional districts.

The court denied the first petition last week , two days after it was filed , but before enactment of the legislation necessary to put the redistricting proposal on the ballot. The petition had asked for immediate action to stop the Legislature from acting. The court declined to stop the Legislature from voting, but seemed to leave open today’s second petition, apparently saying the first petition was premature.

Today’s petition asks the Supreme Court to keep off the November ballot ACA 8 , the Legislature’s proposed constitutional amend

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