The Trump administration and the California Republican Party asked the US Supreme Court to block the state from using its new congressional map that favors Democrats during this year’s midterm election.

California Republicans filed an emergency appeal to the U.S.

By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - California Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in a bid to prevent the state from using a new congressional map designed to give the Democrats five more seats in the U.

The state Republican party and other opponents of the new congressional districts created by voter-approved Proposition 50 in November, sought an emergency injunction from the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

The California Republican Party Tuesday filed an emergency application asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the redrawing of congressional boundaries authorized by Proposition 50.

The California Republican Party said it will ask the US Supreme Court to weigh in on the state’s new congressional map that favors Democrats.

In an emergency filing, party asked for an injunction for new maps aimed at countering Texas’ gerrymander

The California Republican Party said Tuesday it had filed an emergency application at the U.S. Supreme Court in the hopes of blocking California from using newly approved congressional district maps in the 2026 elections.

California Republicans are requesting the Supreme Court block a new Democratic-favored House map from going into effect ahead of the November elections. The California GOP is appealing a decision made by a lower court last week that blocked Republicans’ bid to stop a new set of congressional lines from being put in place for the midterms.

Mississippi appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. “The question presented,” the state’s petition said, is whether federal laws “preempt a state law that allows ballots that are cast by federal election day to be received by election officials after that day.”