“Thousands of Californians have spoken, and their message is simple: Stop rigging, gerrymandering and disenfranchising,” Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff, said. “Voters deserve to choose their leaders — not the other way around.”

California Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking the state Supreme Court to block Democrats from moving forward with a plan to redraw the state’s congressional map. Four Republican state lawmakers filed an emergency petition with the California Supreme Court to halt what they describe as state Democrats’ “unconstitutional” plan to rush through the redistricting process.

California already has an overwhelmingly Democratic delegation in Congress. Gov. Newsom’s plan could give his party five more seats and offset a Texas gerrymander.