Tag: proposition 54

Twelve propositions that passed on California’s ballot for 2016 included legislation on education, plastic bags, marijuana, tobacco, criminal justice and taxation.

After six-weeks of blowout campaigning and record spending, California's historic gubernatorial recall effort culminated Tuesday as voters turned out en force to recall recently elected Gov. Gray Davis and replace him with action-movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger.

An 11-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday to overturn the Sept. 15 decision to postpone the recall election.

Proposition 54, the so-called Racial Privacy Initiative, which would bar states and local governments from collecting racial and ethnic information, is detrimental to advances in medicine, equality in education and safeguards in law enforcement.