Supervisors File Appeal of Redistricting Order
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Monday filed an appeal with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, hoping to overturn the landmark voting rights case that found the county had intentionally discriminated against Latino voters.
The appeal was filed just hours after federal Judge David V. Kenyon refused to stay his decision, ordering new district boundaries that would create a Latino majority district. Kenyon signed his final orders in the historic case on Monday, the 25th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
The county’s appeal is the first, but probably not the last in this case that has already cost more than $6 million in attorney’s fees.
Covina Mayor Chris Lancaster said Monday that he will urge San Gabriel Valley cities to join him in filing a friend-of-the-court brief with the appellate court arguing that under the redistricting, voters will be represented by a supervisor they did not elect.
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