important to understand this stuff in the context of nonsense like the "independent state legislature theory." republicans have quietly embraced the idea that it's not the *people* who are sovereign but the *state legislature* that is sovereign and unbound by niceties like "respecting elections"

Indeed. Whatever tier of government they can rig should hold unlimited power

my understanding of how Prop 1 was written indicated that the authors saw this coming and stated in the proposition that once passed it was self activating, i.e. it does not require the legislature to fund/enact anything. It simply is enshrined in the state constitution.

I'm not disagreeing but I'm really curious what that looks like in this context since the state constitution *very* clearly empowers the people via referendum to propose, adopt, and enact laws independent of the state legislature. I don't see a way to cleverly reinterpret the issue.

*nods in Wisconsin*

they will invent or embrace whatever crackpot theory necessary to ensure 1) power for it's own sake, and 2) keeping the "wrong people" in their rightful place under the boot heel. Yesterday's fever swamp lunatic fringe ideas are today's mainstream political messaging.

ISL is monarchies with extra steps

*as long as it’s a legislature they control

Reminds me of the whole ‘Constitutional Sheriff’ thing where local sheriffs were just declaring that state, federal, and county governments had no authority to prevent them from doing whatever corrupt/bigoted things they decided the constitution said they should do

this will of course only be true where conservatives hold state power; any state in which liberals, or at least Democrats, hold state power strongly, they can be easily overridden by the federal government, courts, or just some sort of right wing state bounty proclamation or whatever

The average state legislator is a bigger dirt bag than your average dirt bag. Just an absolute whore-fest of easily bribed dimwits