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by rcpt 1270 days ago
Mob rule doesn't make for good laws. Especially in California, example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_California_Proposition_...

Prop 13 is arguably illegal under federal law. Of course with the current court I wouldn't want to press it. After all Clarence Thomas loves Prop 13 so much that he refused to sign the majority opinion in Nordlinger v Hahn because it didn't go far enough in empowering landowners.

> No one voting for the law at the time was looking To benefit "whit people".

Again, the Fair Housing Act cares about "disparate impact". Intention is irrelevant.

(Though given that the 70s was the era of school bussing battles it's a bit of a stretch to say that people weren't thinking about race wrt Serrano and school funding)