As expected, a federal court has rejected the constitutional challenge to the Newsham recall. capradio.org/169145#ruling The judge dismissed the claims for the very reasons discussed earlier. jonathanturley.org/2021/08/12/law…
“The United States Constitution and its principle of ‘one person, one vote’ does not prevent California from holding its ongoing gubernatorial recall election..."
"...There is nothing unconstitutional about placing in one ballot a vote for or against the recall of the Governor and then a vote for a replacement candidate.”
The Washington Post recently ran this column by University of California-Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Aaron S. Edlin. Other then ran the story as a credible legal argument. jonathanturley.org/2021/08/12/law…
...In their column the two law professors insisted that this “should not be a close constitutional question.”
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