Supervisors Reaffirm Plan to Contest Remap Ruling
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Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday reaffirmed their decision to fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in defiance of a historic court ruling that they discriminated against Latinos in drawing district boundaries.
Splitting along ideological lines, the conservative-dominated board voted 3 to 2 to petition an 11-member panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to review Friday’s ruling by a three-member panel of the appeals court. The ruling let stand a new political map for the county drawn by civil rights groups and approved in August by U.S. District Judge David V. Kenyon.
Kenyon will hold a hearing Thursday to decide on a date for an election to choose a successor for retiring Supervisor Pete Schabarum in a redrawn, predominantly Latino 1st District.
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