Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Bonsall, and fellow Republican Congressman Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, have filed a lawsuit challenging California's effort to redraw its congressional maps.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Northern District of Texas alleges Proposition 50, which goes before California voters in a special election on Tuesday, is unconstitutional and "an unprecedented interstate assault on representative democracy."

The complaint claims Issa specifically will be harmed both as a Congressman and as a California voter, while Jackson "will lose specific, concrete resources and authority necessary to serve his constituents because California's scheme will succeed in flipping House control."

Issa claims in a declaration that if Democrats gain House control, he will lose "seniority advant

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