COLUMN RIGHT/ STEVEN S. LUCAS : Lawmakers’ Revenge, Pure and Simple : The state Supreme Court upheld Proposition 140. Now it may pay a steep price.
In late 1991, in a decision penned by Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas, the California Supreme Court upheld the voters’ initiative to limit state legislative terms, Proposition 140. The measure not only imposed a lifetime term limit for members of the Assembly and the Senate, it also mandated a 38% reduction in the Legislature’s bloated internal … Read more