Results 1 to 24 of 24

Thread: Splitting up California: State Supreme Court takes initiative off ballot

  1. #1

    Exclamation Splitting up California: State Supreme Court takes initiative off ballot

    You're not going anywhere, prole.



    Splitting up California: State Supreme Court takes initiative off ballot

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics...s-13085880.php

    Bob Egelko July 18, 2018 Updated: July 18, 2018 5:12 p.m.

    The state Supreme Court decided Wednesday that California will remain intact geographically, at least for now, while it decides whether the voters can consider a proposal to divide the Golden State into three new states.

    The three-state initiative, Proposition 9, had gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. Nine days after opponents filed suit, the court issued a unanimous order removing the measure from the ballot and ordering further legal arguments on whether it should be placed on another ballot in 2020 or struck down altogether.

    The court said it usually allows ballot measures to go to the voters before considering constitutional challenges. But in this case, the six justices said, “significant questions regarding the proposition’s validity” and the “potential harm” of allowing a public vote before those questions are resolved “outweighs the potential harm in delaying the proposition to a future election.”

    Those questions include whether California voters’ broad authority to enact laws by initiative, established in 1911, include the power to break up the state, and in the process abolish its Constitution and existing laws, to be replaced by lawmaking bodies in three future states.

    The narrower legal issue is whether Prop. 9, drafted as a change in the laws that define California’s boundaries, would actually amount to a “revision” of the state Constitution. That cannot be done by initiative, but instead requires approval by two-thirds of both houses of the Legislature to be placed on the ballot.

    “We believe it is clear that a ballot initiative may not revise the Constitution by making changes in the basic framework of government,” said Carlyle Hall, a lawyer for opponents who sued to take Prop. 9 off the ballot. “And there can be no greater change in our framework of government than the total abolition of our existing Constitution.”

    Howard Penn, executive director of the Planning and Conservation League, lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, said Prop. 9 would have caused “chaos in our public services including safeguarding our environment ... all to satisfy the whims of one billionaire.”

    The billionaire is Bay Area venture capitalist Tim Draper, who drafted Prop. 9, qualified it for the ballot and has represented himself without a lawyer in the court proceedings. Draper argued that California had become ungovernable — its taxes too high, its schools and public services in disrepair, its 39 million-plus residents far too numerous to be represented democratically by 120 elected legislators.

    He reacted indignantly to the court order.

    “Apparently, the insiders are in cahoots and the establishment doesn’t want to find out how many people don’t like the way California is being governed,” Draper said in a statement. He said the six justices “probably would have lost their jobs” under the three-state plan.

    “The whole point of the (state’s) initiative process,” he added, “was to be set up as a protection from a government that was no longer representing its people. Now that protection has been corrupted.”

    Prop. 9 proposed creating three new states: Southern California, running from San Diego and Orange County north past Fresno to Madera County; California, from Los Angeles along the coast to Monterey; and Northern California, covering all areas from Santa Cruz north to the Oregon border.

    If the measure appears on a future ballot and a majority of voters statewide approve it, the state would forward the plan to Congress, which would have the last word. Establishing three states in place of one would also authorize the election of four additional U.S. senators. California’s current 55 electoral votes for president, reliably Democratic in recent decades, would be divided among the new states, and the contours of the proposed Southern California state suggest that it could swing Republican.

    California lawmakers, meanwhile, would apportion current state funds and facilities among the new states.

    Draper had proposed in 2014 to divide California into six states, but was unable to collect the 585,000-plus signatures needed for a measure to amend the state Constitution. By drafting Prop. 9 as a recasting of state laws, he needed only 385,880 signatures to make the ballot. He submitted more than 402,000 valid signatures in April.

    The measure was challenged in a lawsuit July 9 by opponents led by the Planning and Conservation League, which said it feared the environmental consequences of discarding current state laws and constitutional protections. They contended Prop. 9 was, at the very least, a constitutional revision that could not be enacted by voter initiative.

    The court has considered similar arguments on other issues in the past. In 1990, it overturned a provision of a prosecution-sponsored initiative, approved by the voters, that would have barred California courts from interpreting criminal defendants’ rights more broadly than the U.S. Supreme Court. The state justices said it would have required “far-reaching changes in the nature of our government plan.”

    The lawsuit challenging Prop. 9 said it “would not simply ‘revise,’ but would abolish the existing state Constitution” and all state laws.

    Draper put it differently. Prop. 9, he told the court in a filing last week, would result in “nullification of the California Constitution, not its ‘revision.’”

    Legal groups representing low-income Californians also argued that the three new states, while relatively equal in population, would be financially unequal — the new Northern California would have far more revenue available from income, sales and property taxes, and less need for spending on public assistance, than the other two new states.

    “California’s state government now equalizes these disparities based on need, not geography,” Bob Wolfe, attorney for Public Counsel and the Western Center on Law and Poverty, told the court. “Once the state is divided, such a needs-based allocation no longer would be possible.”

    The court’s order leaves 11 propositions on the Nov. 6 ballot. After Prop. 8, a proposed regulation of kidney dialysis clinics, the next on the ballot will be Prop. 10, which would expand local government authority to enact rent control.

    The case is Planning and Conservation League vs. Padilla, S249859.
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11



  2. Remove this section of ads by registering.
  3. #2
    CAL3 was a bad idea, it would have just given the Demoncrats 4 more senators and EC votes, we want CALExit and keep the red counties or some CALSplit that gives us 2 R Senators and some R EC votes.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

  4. #3
    Secede X 3. All Cals exit.
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    You only show up to attack Trump when he is wrong
    Make America the Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave again

  5. #4
    Account Restricted. Admin to review account standing


    Posts
    28,739
    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Did they get cold feet?

  6. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth
    CAL3 was a bad idea, it would have just given the Demoncrats 4 more senators and EC votes
    Yikes.

  7. #6
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    CAL3 was a bad idea, it would have just given the Demoncrats 4 more senators and EC votes, we want CALExit and keep the red counties or some CALSplit that gives us 2 R Senators and some R EC votes.
    I was actually really hoping this would happen for precisely this reason. Imagine the fallout if word got out that California was getting 4 more Senators... Red states would rush to do the same thing to counter the move! Texas would break up, Colorado, Arizona... it would be a race to decentralize and set the precedent that smaller is better and that it can be done. This would have been a great thing, imo
    There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
    -Major General Smedley Butler, USMC,
    Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
    Author of, War is a Racket!

    It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
    - Diogenes of Sinope

  8. #7
    They should vote harder next time.
    It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
    - Kim Kardashian

    Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!

    My pronouns are he/him/his

  9. #8
    Quote Originally Posted by jllundqu View Post
    I was actually really hoping this would happen for precisely this reason. Imagine the fallout if word got out that California was getting 4 more Senators... Red states would rush to do the same thing to counter the move! Texas would break up, Colorado, Arizona... it would be a race to decentralize and set the precedent that smaller is better and that it can be done. This would have been a great thing, imo
    Nah. No other state has the same issues as California that could justify being broken up into 3 states using US constitution logic. You could get there with Anti-Federalist or some other type of extra-constitutionalist logic or principle, tho.
    Quote Originally Posted by Torchbearer
    what works can never be discussed online. there is only one language the government understands, and until the people start speaking it by the magazine full... things will remain the same.
    Hear/buy my music here "government is the enemy of liberty"-RP Support me on Patreon here Ephesians 6:12



  10. Remove this section of ads by registering.
  11. #9
    I'm not sure why they think they can just vote to determine who governs them. They would need a state constitutional amendment, and also US congressional approval, if thats what they want to do.

    If they are serious about this, they should really start to call up each and every congressman in the country to start asking them for permission to vote on this.
    It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
    - Kim Kardashian

    Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!

    My pronouns are he/him/his

  12. #10
    Quote Originally Posted by jllundqu View Post
    I was actually really hoping this would happen for precisely this reason. Imagine the fallout if word got out that California was getting 4 more Senators... Red states would rush to do the same thing to counter the move! Texas would break up, Colorado, Arizona... it would be a race to decentralize and set the precedent that smaller is better and that it can be done. This would have been a great thing, imo
    The Rs might be dumb enough to let the Ds do it but the Ds would never agree to let the Rs do it, especially if the Ds got to do it first.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

  13. #11
    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    I'm not sure why they think they can just vote to determine who governs them. They would need a state constitutional amendment, and also US congressional approval, if thats what they want to do.

    If they are serious about this, they should really start to call up each and every congressman in the country to start asking them for permission to vote on this.
    Damn straight. Call up the governors and mayors too.
    Quote Originally Posted by Torchbearer
    what works can never be discussed online. there is only one language the government understands, and until the people start speaking it by the magazine full... things will remain the same.
    Hear/buy my music here "government is the enemy of liberty"-RP Support me on Patreon here Ephesians 6:12

  14. #12
    Quote Originally Posted by heavenlyboy34 View Post
    Damn straight. Call up the governors and mayors too.
    And if they say no, they should start a petition to request permits to protest their decision
    It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
    - Kim Kardashian

    Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!

    My pronouns are he/him/his

  15. #13
    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    I'm not sure why they think they can just vote to determine who governs them. They would need a state constitutional amendment, and also US congressional approval, if thats what they want to do.

    If they are serious about this, they should really start to call up each and every congressman in the country to start asking them for permission to vote on this.
    this

    You have to follow the rules to change your Government!
    Support Justin Amash for Congress
    Michigan Congressional District 3

  16. #14
    Quote Originally Posted by EBounding View Post
    this

    You have to follow the rules to change your Government!
    Indeed. If only the South had nicely asked permission to secede, many lives could have been saved.

    The blood of that war is on their hands, for not filing the necessary permits.
    It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
    - Kim Kardashian

    Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!

    My pronouns are he/him/his

  17. #15
    Quote Originally Posted by jllundqu View Post
    I was actually really hoping this would happen for precisely this reason. Imagine the fallout if word got out that California was getting 4 more Senators... Red states would rush to do the same thing to counter the move! Texas would break up, Colorado, Arizona... it would be a race to decentralize and set the precedent that smaller is better and that it can be done. This would have been a great thing, imo
    Exactly...could have blown the lid off the whole stinking mess.

    ALLExit!

    That's why the system had no choice but to shut it down...even if only symbolic, the repercussions to the superstate were too great.

    Maybe a few people will wake up to who is really running the show here.

  18. #16
    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    Indeed. If only the South had nicely asked permission to secede, many lives could have been saved.

    The blood of that war is on their hands, for not filing the necessary permits.
    It is . Had they refrained from invading the north and kidnapping and jailing free people my state would never have invaded them . They just cannot be trusted .
    Do something Danke



  19. Remove this section of ads by registering.
  20. #17
    If California divides, maybe they ought to be forced to reapply for statehood.

    In the bigger picture, I think some states need to consolidate their governments a bit. There is no reason for Tennessee to have 95 counties. There is no reason for Georgia to have 159 counties or Kentucky to have 120.
    #NashvilleStrong

    “I’m a doctor. That’s a baby.”~~~Dr. Manny Sethi

  21. #18
    Quote Originally Posted by euphemia View Post
    If California divides, maybe they ought to be forced to reapply for statehood.
    This is a good idea as long as we deny their application, they can leave or be a territory.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

  22. #19
    In the meantime, cut off the money.
    #NashvilleStrong

    “I’m a doctor. That’s a baby.”~~~Dr. Manny Sethi

  23. #20
    Quote Originally Posted by euphemia View Post
    If California divides, maybe they ought to be forced to reapply for statehood.

    In the bigger picture, I think some states need to consolidate their governments a bit. There is no reason for Tennessee to have 95 counties. There is no reason for Georgia to have 159 counties or Kentucky to have 120.
    Kentucky counties were formed to allow travel to and from the courthouse in one day on horseback . I doubt you could ever get them to give any up .
    Do something Danke

  24. #21
    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    They should vote harder next time.
    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	d0197e6043bc4fd19c39ca1ff53edf3c--american-pride-american-symbols.jpg 
Views:	0 
Size:	130.6 KB 
ID:	6048
    Pfizer Macht Frei!

    Openly Straight Man, Danke, Awarded Top Rated Influencer. Community Standards Enforcer.


    Quiz: Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

    Short Income Tax Video

    The Income Tax Is An Excise, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes

    The Federalist Papers, No. 15:

    Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.

  25. #22
    If Voting made any real change, it would be Illegal.
    1776 > 1984

    The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an
    Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.

    The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide

    Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled

    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Our central bank is not privately owned.

  26. #23
    I was never a fan of this big government idea anyway.
    Lifetime member of more than 1 national gun organization and the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance. Part of Young Americans for Liberty and Campaign for Liberty. Free State Project participant and multi-year Free Talk Live AMPlifier.

  27. #24
    “Whether you agree or not with this initiative, this is not the way democracies are supposed to work,” billionaire Silicon Valley VC Tim Draper said in an email, after the California Supreme Court decided unanimously last month to remove from the November ballot a measure aimed at dividing California into three states.
    This kind of corruption is what happens in Third World countries.
    As a reminder, Draper had gathered more than 402,000 signatures when he submitted Prop. 9 in April to qualify for the November ballot. He argued that California had become too large to govern and would better represent its population by dividing into three separate states.

    On July 9, California’s Supreme Court pulled Prop. 9 from the midterm ballot because of “significant questions regarding the proposition’s validity.”
    Cal 3 was originally drafted as an amendment to the state constitution, but the environmental group Planning and Conservation League filed a lawsuit, maintaining that Draper’s proposal amounted to a “revision” that would require support from two-thirds of the state Legislature before appearing on the midterm ballot, the San Francisco Chroniclereported.
    Draper was given a 30-day window to argue whether the proposal should be placed on the 2020 ballot.
    Draper contended the court’s decision to remove the measure meant “the desires of hundreds of thousands of Californians who signed the initiative petition have been disregarded because of some ‘potential harm’ that would befall the voters if they were even presented an opportunity to discuss the failings of their government.”
    And now, in a letter to the court dated Aug. 2, Draper said the court's decision last month to remove Cal 3 from the 2018 midterms, “effectively put an end to this movement,” and that he does not intend to appeal the decision, the Sacramento Bee reported, adding that “the political environment for radical change is right now."

    The letter was made public by his opponents Thursday, who gloated that Draper’s decision not to appeal as evidence “that (Draper) has no serious interest in the policy implications of his foolish idea, but that he just wanted to piggyback on what he thinks is a political trend.”

    More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...urt-corruption
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment



  28. Remove this section of ads by registering.


Similar Threads

  1. Replies: 18
    Last Post: 01-20-2016, 08:23 PM
  2. Replies: 9
    Last Post: 01-28-2014, 12:34 PM
  3. Ballot Initiative in California will Legalize Marijuana in 2010!!
    By He Who Pawns in forum U.S. Political News
    Replies: 53
    Last Post: 06-13-2009, 02:00 AM
  4. Giuliani's Top Fundraiser Behind California Ballot Initiative
    By hard@work in forum U.S. Political News
    Replies: 2
    Last Post: 09-29-2007, 06:08 AM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •