Government,
Labor/Employment
Apr. 4, 2023
The battle over Prop 22: A sign of things to come
The tension between the direct democracy and representative democracy is acute, and the fault lines are only becoming more visible as courts grapple with ballot initiatives that appear to aggressively insulate voter legislation from the State Legislature.
Virtually every ballot initiative that has come before the California voter has been a response to the action - or perceived inaction - of the State Legislature. When a ballot initiative passes, the voters who participate in that particular election effectively supplant the State's legislators. This was, of course, the intended outcome when Proposition 7 was passed in 1911, establishing this now-familiar form of direct democracy. But as the 1st District Court of the A...
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