Republican state legislators have filed an emergency petition with the California Supreme Court to put a Democratic-led mid-decade redistricting effort on hold.

Filed Tuesday by the Dhillon Law Group and a number of California GOP lawmakers, the petition challenges what they say is an attempt by the Democratic-controlled legislature to bypass a 30-day public review period for such measures mandated by the state constitution.

"I believe Democrats, independents and Republicans want a voice on who represents them," Republican state Sen. Tony Strickland of Huntington Beach said Tuesday at a press conference announcing the petition.

California lawmakers are under a tight deadline to get the redistricting effort, named Proposition 50, through the chamber in time for a November special

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