Perspective
Mar. 16, 2010
Legislature Using Purse Strings to Bind Judiciary
H. Scott Leviant and Linh Hua of Spiro Moss say the cost cutting measures taken to combat the budget crisis jeopardizes our co-equal tripartite form of government.
Today, as a result of catastrophic underfunding of California's judicial branch by the Legislature and further cuts by the Executive branch, the "separation of powers doctrine" has been unconstitutionally breached to the detriment of the judicial branch of government, all who come before it, and the general citizenry of California.
Article III, Section 3, of the California Constitution provides:...
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