No Early Ruling on Challenge to Calif. Redistricting Plan
The Supreme Court today refused, at least for now, to hear a Republican challenge to a redistricting plan that has placed Democrats in firm control of California’s congressional delegation.
The court, without comment, turned down a request to grant speeded-up consideration to the case, which raises the politically explosive issue of gerrymandering.
Republicans urged the justices to grant review now so arguments in the case can be heard when the court opens its 1988-89 term in October. That would allow the justices to rule in the case before the 1990 congressional elections.
A three-judge federal court, in a 2-1 decision, upheld California’s redistricting plan last April 21. That court said Republicans failed to show that the plan deprived them of political power and fair representation.
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