As noted in Friday's News Scan, California's district attorneys won a court ruling last week keeping Governor Jerry Brown's latest initiative off the 2016 ballot.  This latest brainstorm (or perhaps mind fog) was dreamed up too late to make it to this year's ballot in the usual course of the initiative process, so the Gov. pasted it in to an unrelated juvenile justice initiative.

Now he has gone directly to the state supreme court to get this ruling overturned.  The high court stayed the trial court's order and put the briefing on fast track.  The stay allowed the AG to issue a title and summary and allows the proponents to start gathering signatures.

CJLF has filed a letter brief in support of the DAs.