Comments on: Clint Bolick on state constitutions https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/11/clint-bolick-state-constitutions/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:52:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michael Kennedy https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/11/clint-bolick-state-constitutions/comment-page-1/#comment-343116 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:52:53 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=59255#comment-343116 The problem in California is that the unsavvy electorate passed Prop. 8 decades ago that resulted in California being tied to federal constitutional standards; our independent state grounds opportunity for suppressing evidence that is collected in violation of the state Constitution went out the window, and our supreme court did not have the hormones to rule that such evisceration of constitutional standards could not be obtained by simple voter proposition.

The vital and framing doctrine of federalism was gutted by an ignorant electorate and then by a thoughtless and gutless state supreme court, and our citizens have been victimized by the ugly reality for decades.

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