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Military and Veterans Code, Section 143:

"Whenever the Governor is satisfied that rebellion, insurrection, tumult or riot exists in any part of the state or that the execution of civil or criminal process has been forcibly resisted by bodies of persons, or that any conspiracy or combination exists to resist by force the execution of process, or that the officers of any county or city are unable or have failed for any reason to enforce the laws, the Governor may, by proclamation, declare any part of the State of California or the county or city or any portion thereof to be in a state of insurrection, and he or she may thereupon order into the service of the state any number and description of the active militia, or unorganized militia, as he or she deems necessary, to serve for a term and under the command of any officer as he or she directs."

As you can see, our Legislature has cleared the path for our Governor!! All he needs to do is to declare San Francisco to be in a state of insurrection!!

How long will we be forced to endure this anxious state of uncertainty?

None dare call it insurrection.!!!

That's been precisely my point for the last week. Thanks for finding the statute.

Troops, not lawyers. It's beyond time to enforce the law. Those who think that calling out the National Gurard to make arrests at the San Francisco courthouse is too extreme, that we need to go to full extent of legal recourse before taking action while thousands of couples get "married" (over 6,000 people by now), only to have them later become annulled, have witlessly (I hope) abetted the full blown riot likely to result. This situation should have been nipped in the bud for the benefit of all concerned.

If Gavin Newsome thought the law unconstitutional, he could have simply sued and tested it before adopting the route of civil disobedience via an act of dictatorship. He didn't need to put these people through a tragic emotional loop. For that action alone, he is neither compassionate or principled, but incontinent and despicable. That Arnold has let it get this far, AND has pitched to Lockyer the opportunity to throw the State's case, is nearly as bad.