[truthkeeper]

This morning, treating the members of the California State Legislature like they are criminals, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly literally have the Capitol on "lock down" -- no legislators are allowed to leave the building. Why is this?

Good on our guys. Question...is this legal?

[Marie2]

They’re probably “not allowed” in the sense that, if they leave, they may lose the vote. I don’t think they are handcuffed to their seats.

[Myrddin]

I think I would have the Speaker arrested for false imprisonment. That would take his sorry ass off the list of Democrats that can vote for the bill as well.

[nd76]

I think the answer is that yes, this is legal; typically, and this applies to Congress too, the presiding officer of the legislative body orders the sergeant-at-arms to round up members and bring them, at gunpoint if necessary, to the legislative chamber. Remember the fiasco in Texas a couple of years ago—rather than be arrested by Texas state troopers and brought to the Capitol in Austin to be forced to participate in a quorum, a number of ‘Rat state legislators made for the border and set up shop in Ardmore, Oklahoma.