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Nov. 1, 2014

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"Our [state] Constitution makes no provision for advisory questions because such polling of the electorate by the Legislature is in tension with the basic purpose of representative as opposed to direct democracy."
-Justice Goodwin Liu, concurring with the majority in ordering Secretary of State Debra Bowen to remove Proposition 49 from California's 2014 statewide ballot.
"In the same way that a 'prior restraint' is disfavored under the First Am...

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