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7/8's majority requirement?? These kind of supermajority threshold requirements should not be allowed, they're simply outrageous and blatantly obstructionist.

• SllX 2y ago
  If you can modify the California constitution by a simple ballot initiative, anything is possible within the bounds of Federal law and the US Constitution. AB5 was a bad law, but the solution was only a half-step to reversing it and yeah, the super majority requirement is essentially a bad solution to a legislature that would have had no qualms overturning a majority vote and talking a good game about how they’re right and voters are wrong. If our political environment didn’t feature short legislative term limits and ballot initiatives to begin with and was properly representative, it’s unlikely someone like the bill’s sponsor would have either been voted in in the first place or received enough support within the legislature to get AB5 passed. She also left the legislature and found herself a nice career working for the very interest groups that wanted to see AB5 passed in the first place.