ACA 8 goes poof!

Law.com has Calif. Bill to Limit Judicial Retention Elections on Hold Amid Redistricting Push

• Legislation that would have ended most appellate justice retention elections in California was shelved Monday after the author rewrote the bill's contents to carry state Democrats' congressional redistricting plans.
• As originally written, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8 would have only placed the names of incumbent justices of the California Supreme Court and the state's six courts of appeal on a ballot if a specified number of registered voters petitioned for an election.
• As of Monday, the constitutional amendment no longer includes the judicial elections language and instead authorizes a mid-decade congressional redistricting that Democrats hope will net as many as five new Democratic seats to offset redrawn Republican maps in Texas.