California’s Prop 50: The World Laughs While Politicians Lose Lunch Money
California’s Proposition 50 is, at first glance, a gloriously bureaucratic footnote—an asterisk on the world’s most overstuffed ballot pamphlet. Passed in June 2016, it tweaks the state constitution so that lawmakers who’ve been naughty can be suspended *without pay* by a two-thirds vote of their own chamber. That’s it; no fireworks, no tear-gas, no flag-draped…