The Los Angeles Times published a story today about California Proposition 8’s acceptance for deliberation by the California Supreme Court.

This paragraph gives me hope — and is not a stretch from what happened in this current instance 42 years later:

Although the court tends to defer to voter sentiment on initiative challenges, it has overturned popular ballot measures in the past.

In 1966, the California Supreme Court struck down an initiative that would have permitted racial discrimination in housing. Voters had approved the measure, a repeal of a fair housing law, by a 2-to-1 margin. Opponents challenged it on equal protection grounds, not as a constitutional revision.

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