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Relevance: 64% Posted on: August 4, 2023
On August 4, 2010, in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage that had passed two years earlier by the state’s voters.
Relevance: 64% Posted on: September 22, 2021
“California recall fails,” The Visalla Times Delta explained. As did KSBY, the NBC affiliate in San Luis Obispo. Not to mention The New York Daily News and The Chicago Sun-Times. FiveThirtyEight analyzed “the failed California recall” at length. Even the South China Morning Post proclaimed the apparent democratic malfunction (reprinting…
Relevance: 64% Posted on: February 6, 2023
A judge has given California doctors a reprieve from an anti-medical-speech law produced by lawmakers and Governor Newsom. The judge has blocked the law until a lawsuit challenging it on First Amendment grounds can be resolved. AB 2098 says that it “shall constitute unprofessional conduct” for doctors to spread “false…
Relevance: 64% Posted on: January 30, 2024
Do politicians understand limits? They seem to have this notion that they may limit us every which way . . . with no natural or civilized limit set upon the limits they may impose. Take California lawmaker Scott Wiener. This state senator (District 11-D.) has introduced a bill to force…
Relevance: 63% Posted on: February 26, 2012
It's getting to become more and more popular to bash initiative rights — even when those rights are not very relevant. I hear rumblings in California that the hopeless Republicans, there, are gearing up for more of such nonsense. But beware, folks: This puts you in very dangerous company, amongst…
Relevance: 63% Posted on: November 6, 2009
Initiative rights are under nonstop assault from the political class. Fortunately, most voters know the value of being able to end-run or reverse the bad decisions of lawmakers. And just a few clear-thinking defenders of initiative rights are enough to expose the murky evasions of the politicians and their pals.…
Relevance: 63% Posted on: September 2, 2020
Should Uber and Lyft abandon California? At issue is the anti-freelancer statute AB 5, passed last year in the Golden State, which outlaws independent contractors in many industries. Including the wildly successful ride-sharing business. Horrified, threatened, Uber and Lyft have declared their willingness to suspend operations in California if they…
Relevance: 63% Posted on: February 4, 2020
California, “the U.S. state most synonymous with all varieties of growth — vegetal, technological, and human — is at the precipice of its first-ever population decline,” writes Derek Thompson of The Atlantic. And folks in other states like Texas and Idaho are none too happy. You see, the Californians fleeing…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: March 21, 2008
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger no longer likes term limits. He explained why in an interview with the LA Times. Says Arnold: “[O]riginally I felt very strongly that it was the greatest thing ever done. Because I despised the idea of guys being so locked in and safe in their positions,…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: January 3, 2014
You know that politicians waste money. You guess that they waste a lot of time. But did you know they deliberately waste our time? Transportation scholar Randal O’Toole regales us with the fix that California’s overlords have put themselves in. Merely assuming that dense city living decreases commuting, California’s legislators…