California Supreme Court Ordered Removal of California-Splitting Initiative From November Ballot

Venture capitalist and CAL 3 Chairman Tim Draper speaks during a press conference after announcing he has collected more than 600,000 signatures to put the plan to partition California into three states onto the November ballot in San Mateo, Calif., April 12, 2018. Stephen Lam/Reuters/File Photo

The controversial initiative that proposed to split California into three states was blocked from appearing on the 2018 ballot by the California Supreme Court on Wednesday.

This came out as a result of a lawsuit filed by an environmental organization, Planning and Conservation League(PCL) that alleged the initiative should be discussed by the Legislature before presenting it to voters as it changes the California Constitution.