A Judge has temporarily barred Herb Wesson from performing duties as Mark Ridley-Thomas' appointed replacement on the L.A. City Council.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that L.A. City Councilman Herb Wesson cannot perform the duties of his office, at least temporarily.
The move hands a victory to a civil rights group and allies of Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, who was suspended after being indicted by federal prosecutors last fall.Representatives of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Southern California and several other plaintiffs. They requested that Wesson be removed from the post pending the verdict from the judge.
Superior Court Judge Mary H. Strobel didn’t remove Wesson but instead said the longtime Los Angeles politician is “enjoined from performing any functions of a council member.“A judge issues a temporary restraining order barring Wesson from participating as an L.A. council member, handing a victory to allies of Mark Ridley-Thomas.
Strobel said the plaintiffs, who also include a group of voters in Ridley-Thomas’ district, have a sufficient likelihood of prevailing in their argument that Wesson is legally barred from returning to the council on an interim basis, since he has already served the maximum number of terms under the city’s term limit law.The city and the plaintiffs will appear before Strobel again next month.
The city attorney’s office declined to comment. A representative of Wesson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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