"Scott Graves, budget director with the California Budget and Policy Center, said Proposition 36 is what is called a "ballot box budgeting measure". "The authors of the measure did not provide, as a part of Prop 36, any way to pay for these new services," Graves said. "As a result, they ended up putting state and local policy makers in a pretty tough position.""
"And in a brief, unsigned order released Wednesday, the high court denied an emergency request by the California's Republican Party to block the redistricting plan. The state's GOP argued that the map violated the U.S. Constitution because its creation was mainly driven by race, not partisan politics. A lower federal court rejected that claim. The ruling on California's redistricting plan comes two months after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Texas map."
California voters approved a redistricting plan last year as a Democratic response to Texas' new GOP-friendly map, which President Trump supported to help Republicans preserve a narrow House majority. Proposition 36 was described as a "ballot box budgeting measure" that omitted a funding mechanism, forcing state and local policymakers to cover new services. The U.S. Supreme Court denied an emergency request from the California Republican Party to block the map. The GOP argued the map emphasized race over partisan politics, but a lower federal court rejected that claim. The ruling followed the Court's earlier clearance of the Texas map.
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