CA: Court's help eyed in budget impasse

Sac Bee ^ | 7/17/03 | Alexa H. Bluth

[NormsRevenge]

State Superintendent of Education Jack O'Connell plans to ask the California Supreme Court to intervene in the state's budget standoff and ease the way for tax increases to minimize school cuts, a spokesman said late Wednesday.

O'Connell is expected to announce today that he plans to file a petition like that of GOP Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn, which led that state's Supreme Court to lift strict requirements, similar to those in California, to enact tax hikes.

[NormsRevenge]

Shades of Nevada ping

[hauerf]

Barf!

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[snooker]

Leftist will do anything so they can remove your life, liberty and property from your care.

[Blood of Tyrants]

This trend needs to be slapped down hard. To have political activist judges ruling that some parts of the Constitution or some perceived social problem can outweigh other parts of the Constitution is just plain wrong and very dangerous.

It is only a step away from the SC ruling that the "welfare clause" allows the government to take your guns because the benefit of public security outweighs your RKBA.

[capt. norm]

The liberals just love to legislate through the judiciary because their ideas are not supported by a majority of voters. They have to get, from unelected judges, what they can'y get the proper way from the general public.

[randita]

An injunction has been placed against the SCONV ruling by a Federal Court. Those bringing the lawsuit claim that their due process rights were violated because the 2/3 law to raise taxes that voters approved was negated.

If O'Connell prevails with the SCOCA, two laws would have been negated -- the law requiring a 2/3 majority to raise taxes AND the law requiring a 2/3 majority to pass a budget.

But what the hey, laws seem to be meant to be ignored or changed by the judicial branch, judging from recent rulings.

[goldstategop]

Gut Proposition 13 without repealing it. That's Jack O'Connell's strategery - in the name of aiding the chirrun.

[NormsRevenge]

It looks like the West's future holds lots of Recalls of state officers and judges, as permitted by law.

For such a small group of judges to be allowed to operate in this fashion is ill-advised and clearly an abuse of power. The people will not stand for it... imo

[NEWwoman]

Mega dittos!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Damn crooks!

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[Hostage]

The judiciary of this country is going to lead the people down the road to violent revolution if certain jurists continue an indirect exercise in mandating budget priorities.

Suppose the California Supremem Court moves to quash the two-thirds requirement for raising taxes and the Democrat controlled legislature passes tax increases. Suppose further that the people of the state in the years ahead vote into office as a result of disgust with high taxation a legislature that passes major tax and spending cuts.

What will O'Connell and the education union lawyers do then? Will they then proceed to have the judiciary decide spending priorities? Or worse, would the judiciary mandate spending levels, ergo tax rates?

The case for Nevada should never have been heard. The question of priorities in budgeting is a question of allocations and limitations that falls to the legislature and executive, never the judiciary.

Once the judiciary and its minions begin to dictate decisions regarding taxation, the government becomes a dictatorship. These ruminations and threats of having the judiciary decide questions of taxation bring the state closer to tyranny. We all know what happens then.

[Lancey Howard]

Second Amendment bump.

[nickcarraway]

Gutting Prop 13

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As you know I have been saying on these threads that the courts will be the final arbiter because the 'Rats have steered it in that direction knowing programs will be maintained at the expense of the working class...