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California Supreme Court takes three-state initiative Proposition 9 off ballot
- oldmancoyote 8y agoCalifornia, as it is today, is the only major player in efforts to curtail the excesses of the conservative juggernaut. This market is so large that California's liberal legislature can coerce many nation-wide businesses and institutions to conform to it's liberal agenda with the threat of exclusion from its market. Efforts to divide the state would splinter that market reducing this power and also might produce 4 more conservative senators.
- dragonwriter 8y agoShort version: the measure is being challenged as beyond the power of a ballot initiative as it would constitute a “revision” rather than a mere “amendment” to the State Constitution. The Supreme Court has decided that the challenge warrants deferring the measure pending resolution of the challenge. My commentary: obviously, there's no remedy possible if the measure were to be passed and implemented before a challenge was resolved, so deferring it makes sense; and, honestly, I think ultimately the challenge had to succeed in the merits. While the boundary between amendment and revision is not as clear as it should be, replacing the state with the new ones had got to be on the revision side or the distinction is meaningless.