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Oh this is only the tip of this one. To borrow from the paper itself – Jerry Brown is behaving like the true fringe activists liberals liberal that he his. Check this:

“Politics, and not considerations of law, animate Brown now, just as they did Lockyer. That is why the latter launched, and the former continued to prosecute, a frivolous lawsuit against the six largest U.S. and Japanese automobile manufacturers seeking damages to the state’s environment from greenhouse gases emitted by their cars and trucks.

The suit was preposterous on its face, and a federal judge so held. District Judge Martin Jenkins ruled in San Francisco on Sept. 17 that it is impossible to gauge to what extent automakers are responsible for global warming damage in California that results “from multiple sources around the globe.” The court found that the defendants had engaged in “lawful worldwide sale of automobiles” and that the Lockyer- Brown suit would intrude upon interstate commerce and foreign policy prerogatives of the federal executive branch.

Apparently, neither propriety nor the certainty of encountering Madisonian checks and balances ever gave Lockyer or Brown pause. It has been reported that Brown was initially reluctant to continue Lockyer’s crusade against the automakers but environmental activists convinced him to use the lawsuit to extract concessions from the defendants. Fortunately, the automakers refused to play victim to such extortion. ”

No kidding – thank goodness the automakers wouldn’t pander to this type of shakedown.

To borrow again from the copy of the article:

“What we are getting from Brown is what we got from Lockyer for eight years: Less dignity, less propriety, less concern about the law, and more and more attention to politics.”

Talk about Californication…of the law.