Chief justice decries referendums
California’s legislative process criticized as ‘dysfunctional’
Posted: October 11, 2009 at 5:33 a.m.
In a rare public rebuke of state government and policies delivered by a sitting judge, the chief justice of the California Supreme Court scathingly criticized the state’s reliance on the referendum process, arguing that it had “rendered our state government dysfunctional.”
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