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369. "Trust us"

By Joel Jacobsen

California's Proposition 5, which would do all sorts of strange things to the state's Penal Code, changing the way Californians actually live, has predictably been overshadowed by Prop 8, which has only symbolic importance for its most ardent, passionate and aroused supporters. (Yes, but what symbols!) Prop 5 is massively long - 57 sections over 20 pages of small type - making it difficult even for those of us trained to endure long statutes to be sure exactly what it does. But the California Secretary of State's website does include this very amusing "rebuttal" to arguments against Prop 5 from Orange County Superior Court Judge James Gray, who (according to his own website) ran for Congress as a Republican and for the Senate as a Libertarian without having to hang up his robe: Under Prop...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on November 02, 2008 (boomark / email).