California Recall System Must Be Reformed. It’s Bad for Taxpayers and, Some Say, Democracy.

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August 16, 2021

UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and law professor Aaron Edlin say that California’s recall system “is not just nonsensical and undemocratic. It is unconstitutional.”

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