Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8, which would have amended the state Constitution to eliminate most elections of Supreme Court (and Court of Appeal) justices (see here), has itself been eliminated. It’s a casualty of the Election Rigging Response Act, the high-profile effort by Governor Gavin Newsom and Democrats in the state legislature to offset in California expected Republican-favored redistricting in Texas and perhaps other states.
ACA 8 was gutted-and-amended yesterday, replaced by a key component of the time-sensitive California redistricting plan. In its prior form, the judicial-election proposal had received favorable preliminary action. (See here.)
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