If California’s Recall Is Illegal, So Was Jon Ossoff’s Election in Georgia

In the New York Times, Professor Erwin Chemerinsky argues that California’s recall system is not merely a bad idea, it’s illegal. “The most basic principles of democracy,” Chemerinsky writes,

Specifically, Chemerinsky notes that California employs a two-step system — in which the first vote is to recall or not recall, and the second is to choose a replacement — and contends that this creates a problem, because