California Republicans ask SCOTUS to halt Prop. 50 maps in emergency appeal

California Republicans asked the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s bid to redraw the state’s congressional map.

The California Republican Party filed an emergency appeal to the nation’s highest court in a last-ditch bid to halt the alleged gerrymandering triggered by Newsom’s Proposition 50.

The redistricting effort could turn up to five GOP-held districts blue.

The filing asks Justice Elena Kagan, who is assigned to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, to issue an injunction to temporarily reinstate the current congressional map, according to the Sacramento Bee.

Prop. 50 was championed by Newsom and passed handily in the November election last year.