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California Assemblyman Vince Fong, R-Bakersfield, is taking Secretary of State Shirley Weber to court, after Weber ruled that Fong is ineligible to run for Congress. Weber said he couldn’t run for a House seat because he’d already filed to run for reelection to the Assembly. Fong on Friday filed a lawsuit in Sacramento County Superior Court, arguing that the California Secretary of State’s role is to “receive and file” nomination documents, not to render judgments on who is, and is not, eligible to run. “The Secretary’s attempted unilateral expansion of her powers must be rejected by this Cour…

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