Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. v. Padilla

CANTIL-SAKAUYE, C. J.,

Concurring.—As the majority observes, I dissented from this court’s August 2014 order removing an advisory measure, designated Proposition 49, from California’s November 2014 general election ballot. My vote was based on my conclusion that petitioners had failed to make a sufficient showing of the invalidity of the challenged measure to warrant removing it from the ballot.

The court’s opinion, arrived at following full briefing, oral argument, and extensive deliberation, concludes that the Legislature properly exercised its *524authority in enacting the statute submitting…