California’s Supreme Court on Wednesday evening rejected Republicans’ efforts to stall work on Democrats’ redistricting proposals .

Republican legislators earlier this week asked the state’s Supreme Court to intervene and hit the brakes on redistricting efforts underway in the statehouse .

They argued, in their petition to the court, that the proposed redistricting legislation must be published for 30 days before the legislature can hear or act on it. The filing alleged that rule was “circumvented” by the legislature by replacing two unrelated bills with the redistricting proposal, a move called “gut and amend” by those in Sacramento.

They asked the court to halt any work on the legislative package until mid-September.

But the court said, in its order on Wednesday, Aug. 20, that

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