California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero issued a ruling Wednesday evening denying the petition of several Republican members of the California legislature asking the court to halt Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Election Rigging Act.

BREAKING: California Supreme Court denies Republicans’ request to intervene on the Democratic Redistricting legislation.

“Petitioners have failed to meet their burden of establishing a basis for relief..” pic.twitter.com/Q7RqtORUdy

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) August 21, 2025

As we reported Tuesday morning, state Sen. Tony Strickland (R-Huntington Beach), Sen. Suzette Valladares (R-Antelope Valley), Asm. Kate Sanchez (R-Mission Viejo), and Asm. Tri Ta (R-Westminster) filed the petition, citing a violation of the California Constitution’s thirty-day rule.

“To circumvent the public’s rights under the Constitution’s thirty-day rule, the Legislature deleted the contents of two wholly unrelated old bills, Assembly Bill 604 (“AB 604”) and Senate Bill 280 (“SB 280”), and simply inserted the contents of the entirely new legislative package into those bills.

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“The Legislature claims that this self-serving tactic, known as ‘gut and amend,’ satisfies the public’s right under the constitution to review proposed legislation for thirty days, even though the only information available to the public about AB 604 and SB 280 for more than thirty days has been their Assembly and Senate bill numbers.

“The stark issue for this court to decide in this case is whether this constitutional right is merely the right to publication of a bill number rather than publication of the proposed legislation in that bill.”

It’s not surprising that the California Supreme Court ruled for Newsom; they’ve rarely dialed back any of his mandates.