The Judicial Council of California voted 19–1 to scuttle emergency rules governing evictions and judicial foreclosures imposed by the body on April 6.
California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, who was appointed to her post in 2010 by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, acknowledged in a statement that the council had overreached.
“The judicial branch cannot usurp the responsibility of the other two branches on a long-term basis to deal with the myriad impacts of the pandemic,” she said. “The duty of the judicial branch is to resolve disputes under the law and not to legislate. I urge our sister branches to act expeditiously to resolve this looming crisis.”
The Judicial Council of California acted after it was sued June 15 by two small landlords in the Kern County branch of the Superior Court of California.
The landlords argued that by initiating a ban on evictions, the Judicial Council undermined the state’s separation of powers and seized policymaking power from the legislature and governor to block landlords’ access to courts.
“Constitutional limitations on government are never more important than during an emergency,” said landlord lawyer Damien M. Schiff, a senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm headquartered in Sacramento, California.
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The era of too big to fail has come to an end. California is a great place to be homeless for sure and many more will be. Mexicans will be returning to Mexico and that will be a very good thing. If Trump bails them, or anything else out I'll be looking for an actual conservative candidate.
Last time I checked, Trump bailed out corporations, small businesses, the unemployed, etc etc But that is a good thing. The stock market is at record highs!!! So, no need to look for an "actual conservative candidate". We got one in Trump. He is for law & order, and like all Republicans he is fiscally responsible.
California is a failed state. Kick the commies out of the union.
Anyone with 2 or more brain cells know the marxists will eventually retreat, turning the state over to republicns to fix the leftist disaster. Then, when everything is fixed, they will start voting the marxists back in.
Trump had better not bail out the pension systems in both ny and california, the idiots voted these clowns in, let them reap the consequences of high taxation and over regulation.