Suing to Stop Spending Cuts in California

As noted by Jesse Walker in the morning links earlier today, various folk are suing--and winning--to stop the state of California from actually accomplishing various budget cuts in its controversial new budget.

I give more details and links to even more, more details on the hows and whys at my California news and politics blog "City of Angles" today. Even Schwarzenegger's use of a line item veto to trim is being legally challenged, by the state Senate's Democratic leader Darrell Steinberg.

For more on why California is in this fiscal mess to begin with, and on the feckless establishment reaction to the crisis, see Matt Welch's column from Reason magazine's August/September issue.