The Los Angeles Times reports:
California Chief Justice Ronald M. George, in a speech prepared for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, said the ease by which Californians can pass new laws at the ballot box has ?rendered our state government dysfunctional.?
George targeted his wrath at two ballot initiatives from November — one that regulated the confinement of fowl in coops and another a constitutional amendment that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Obviously, the latter of the two is the political hot potato.
So, what exactly is George saying? He would rather have an oligarchy of judges supersede the right of the people to amend their state constitution? Doubt that one will fly on Main Street.
