S238309 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA RON BRIGGS AND JOHN VAN DE KAMP, Petitioners, vs. JERRY BROWN, in his official capacity as the Governor of California; XAVIER BECERRA, in his official capacity as the Attorney General of California; CALIFORNIA’S JUDICIAL COUNCIL; and DOES I THROUGH XX, Respondents, CALIFORNIANS TO MEND, NOT END, THE DEATH PENALTY– NO ON PROP. 62, YES ON PROP. 66, Intervenor. INTERVENOR’S RETURN TO THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE Charles H. Bell, Jr. SBN 60553 Kent S. Scheidegger SBN 105178 Email:
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[email protected] Criminal Justice Legal Foundation Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, LLP 2131 L Street 455 Capitol Mall, Suite 600 Sacramento, California 95816 Sacramento, California 95814 Telephone: (916) 446-0345 Telephone: (916) 442-7757 Fax: (916) 446-1194 Fax: (916) 442-7759 Attorneys for Intervenors CALIFORNIANS TO MEND, NOT END, THE DEATH PENALTY– NO ON PROP. 62, YES ON PROP. 66 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of authorities. 4 I. Introduction. 9 II. Proposition 66 embraces a “single subject” as defined in this court’s precedents.. 10 A. Breadth of Subject. 11 B. The Challenged Provisions. 13 1. Protection of Assisting Medical Professionals... 14 2. HCRC Governance. 15 3. Conclusion.. 16 III. Given single-subject compliance, there is no basis for enjoining the implementation of Proposition 66 as a whole. 16 A. Grammatical severability. 17 B. Functional severability. 18 C. Volitional severability. 21 IV. The habeas corpus reforms are well within the people’s reserved legislative power.