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 California GOP wants the high court to reinstate the 2021 maps drawn by an independent redistricting commission while it hears their appeal.

Challengers to California’s new congressional map asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block the state from using its new map.

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.

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.

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

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