Court of Appeal Denies CA AG Bonta’s Improperly Filed Effort to Fast-Track Invalidation of Shasta County’s Voter-Approved Election Integrity Measure
Citizens Locked in Legal Battle Against Their Own Government to Restore Election Integrity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – (June 25, 2026) REDDING, CALIF. – The California Court of Appeals for the Third Appellate District today denied the State of California’s petition to invalidate Shasta County’s voter-approved election integrity measure, Measure B. The court declined to exercise its original jurisdiction “to review the challenged measure at this time” and directed the State to seek any expedited relief in the Shasta County Superior Court in the first instance.
“This is the third time Measure B’s opponents have dragged us into court to stop Measure B — and the third time they have failed,” said attorney Alexander H. Haberbush, lead counsel for the proponents.
“Rather than file in the Shasta County Superior Court — the court closest to the dispute and to the community it affects — Attorney General Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber ran straight to an appellate court in Sacramento, demanding that the voters’ measure be struck down on an expedited schedule of the State’s own choosing, without a trial and without full briefing,” explained Haberbush, founder of The Lex Rex Institute, “The Court of Appeal refused and pointed the State to the very forum it had tried to skip — and it did so even though the County, which would ordinarily defend such a suit, had filed a statement of non opposition to the writ.”
In 2025, Shasta County Counsel sued to keep the citizen-qualified measure off the ballot, only to dismiss the case after its ex parte application was denied. Then a private opponent sought to block the measure before the June election, and the Superior Court rejected that attempt. Voters approved Measure B on June 2, 2026 by greater than 55-percent. Finally, before the results were even certified, AG Bonta sued to invalidate the measure.
The Court of Appeal reached the same conclusion the Superior Court had already reached months ago: this dispute belongs in the trial court and AG Bonta should have respected that.
“The State’s case rests on the claim that a charter county has no authority over its own elections — and it gets there by stretching a 1994 decision that had nothing to do with elections,” Haberbush added. “Defending charter-county authority is what the County should be doing. While we applaud this ruling, it is particularly disappointing that the County chose not to oppose the writ. At a minimum, it should have defended the authority of Shasta County’s own Superior Court to hear the case in the first instance — the very result the Court of Appeal reached today.”
The court’s denial was issued without prejudice, and it did not address the validity of Measure B. Under the order, the State may return to the Court of Appeal only after it has sought expedited relief in the trial court and the trial court has failed to act in a timely manner. The proponents — Laura Hobbs, Deidre Holliday, Kari Chilson, Jim Burnett, and Richard Gallardo, represented by the Lex Rex Institute — say they are prepared to defend the voters’ measure in that forum, as they have in every forum before it.
Support the Defense of Measure B
The legal defense of Measure B — a vital election-integrity measure approved by the voters of Shasta County — is ongoing. Members of the public who wish to help defend the voters’ decision can contribute to the defense here: VoteForB.com
Media Contact
For additional information or to interview Alexander H. Haberbush, Esq., contact Alex Bostic at [email protected]
WE HAVE TO PUT A WHOLE LOT OF JUDGES AND DA'S IN PRISON FOR THESE CRIMES AGAINST THE AMERICAN CITIZENRY!!!
In this case..’we’ means military tribunals.
I DO NOT CARE AS LONG AS IT IS PUBLIC BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE WORLD ARE WITNESSES!!! THEY NEED TO STAND FOR THEIR CRIMES AND THE WORLD SHOWN THAT THIS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED EVER AGAIN!!! WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SHED WAY TO MUCH BLOOD AND WAY TO MUCH TREASURE AS ANOTHER HAS PUT IT!!! FOR THESE CRIMES TO NOT BE MET AS THEY SHOULD BE!!!
I guess you haven't ever heard of the Military Industrial Complex. Tribunals will never happen and this is why. The military is part of it at a certain level.
There are many more patriots than swine in the military, especially in the enlisted ranks.
Yes but they aren’t allowed to reach a level that matters unless they are deep state.
Brass officers are basically politicians when they reach a certain level. By that I mean they are fking useless yes men
Yeh and it is those f tards that make decisions.
Measure B is a county level version of the save act! which shows you just how much crooked poly tic's play in the voting across these United States!
If this is appealed to the Calif Supreme Court, it will be defeated since there is a 7-2 leftist majority.
Bonta and his equally corrupt S-Bag wife Mia have to go with Slickback Newsom. Newsom's toady is buying himself a length of rope as well.
What do they consider timely? When it comes to 2A lawsuits nothing seems timely about that. The courts hold those cases for years, sometimes over a decade. How long ago did they rule for gun magazines, yet it is being held up for an en banc review. A state could bring back slavery, and it would take a decade or more to get it overturned by the courts.
The definition of "timely manner" is fluid in Commiefornia. Remember that still counting votes 2 months after the election is considered "timely" there.
Dims have already brought back slavery, they just refer to it as labor from undocumented Americans.
I would include TAXES as that seems to be what the American public MAIN function is! Just like cattle are for food! WE THE PEOPLE are to produce untold amounts readily available cash, so that politicians can throw it around and appear to be 'worthy' of the office they were supposedly 'VOTED' into! It' what happened in somali land Minnesota, and commiefornia, And the PUBLIC had/ has no idea just how bad or the true amount of of how badly the tax payer wasRaped!
Go Shasta!
SO WHEN SCROTALMENTO WON'T ACT ON VOTER INTEGRITY A COUNTY MOVES ON IT'S OWN AND ASKS VOTERS IF THEY WANT ELECTION INTEGRITY AND THEY VOTE AND SAY YES !!! MORE THAN 55% SAID YES !!!
SO THE STATE AG. BONTA SEZ NO I DON'T WANT THAT I CAN'T CHEAT WITH THOSE MEASURE IN PLACE AND HER TRIES TO FILE A LAW SUIT TO STOP THE WILL OF THE VOTERS !!!
THIS IS WHAQT CUMBAG DEMOCRAP AG'S DO THEY SUBVERT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE !!! TIME TO GO FIND ROB BONTA AND YELL IN HIS FACE AND CALL HIM NAMES AND THREATEN HIS WAY OF LIVING !!! MAKE HIM UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH YOU HATE WHINEY UNDERHANDED CORRUPT JERKOFF ATRTORNEY GENERALS LIKE THIS LITTLE TTTUUURRDDDD !!!
BONATA'S A SHORT MAN WHO SPENDS A LOT OF TIME AT REST STOP REST ROOMS …
Are you saying he's the guy with the knee pads and the cordless hole-saw?
don’t forget the special shoes …
What was measure B?
A version of the 'Save Act' at county level!
Measure B is a voter-approved election integrity measure in Shasta County that requires hand-counting of ballots, photo ID for voters, and limits early voting.
"Court of Appeal Denies CA AG Bonta’s Improperly Filed Effort to Fast-Track Invalidation of Shasta County’s Voter-Approved Election Integrity Measure."
The only way democrats can get elected is through election fraud and will fight any measure supporting election integrity.
This is a good example.
It ain't over until it's over. DEMOCRATS FIGHTING ELECTION INTEGRITY
Now WHY would anybody do such a thing? Unless they were cheating.
What Bonta and Weber are implying, only they are in control of elections.
Corrupt – DAs, SOS, AGs, Senators, Representatives, Governors.
It's a target rich environment.
When does Trump turn the MPs loose?
Gov. Gavin Newsom said he has a secret “break the glass” plan to prevent California from electing a Republican governor. He recently signed a law that states mail in ballots signatures do not have to match
We are witnessing the full Communist takeover of a state. NY is next.
What is the effect of the measure?
Voter ID, hand counting ballots.
Just look at the Los Angeles mayor's race.
26k votes appear a day after election day. All for 1 candidate. Zero for any other candidate.
Leave it to a hoft to …. not even explain … what measure B is all about. Yet a freakin again I had to look it up. All these commenters must live in or near shasta county. Measure B states simply that all voters 1) must present ID 2) NO machine count, only a hand count 3) One Day Elections 4) Locally maintained Voter Rolls 5) Absentee Ballots by … request only 6) Ballot counting … shall be observed by those counting the ballots ( no standing back 10 freakin feet etc ) yup, leave it to the laziness of the gwp. continuing to smh. ( in case you are wondering, I read the gwp for the click bait and 70% plus I look elsewhere for the info )
A foreign born AG interfering in an adoptive country voting system ? Am I right ?
Cali ABSOLUTELY MUST destroy ANY semblance of election integrity that may be left in the State or on the West Coast. If there is election integrity and only living Citizens vote, which are then counted by hand by supervised counters, Democrats lose the state as 15 million+ fraudulent votes disappear!
There is no Integrity in California so long as Democrats Reign.
How dare you stop us from rigging elections!
If there are NO problems with the sysytem the way it is then why are the democrats trying to shut down anything that makes it even stronger