“Federal court declared it unconstitutional and in 1999 Davis refused to file an appeal.”
The judge, Marianne Pfaelzer, sat on Prop 187 for years while George Deukmejian was still Governor and only finalized her decision when Gray Davis took office. That prevented Deukmajian from appealing her decision.
Then Davis and Pfaelzer cut a cozy deal where Davis never appealed her decision to the next level. The whole thing had the stench of collusion and judicial corruption. One stinking political activist sitting on the bench nullified the California electorate.
However it didn’t have to end there. Schwarzenegger had the ability to file an appeal when he took office; he didn’t, because he was a good little GOPe lackey and the GOP establishment had fought against grassroots California voters when we successfully passed Prop 187. Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett, and a Texas governor named George Bush were among the out of state busybodies who fought against us. And locally we had RNC brown nosers like Hugh Hewitt fighting against us.
It’s my understanding that Prop 187 can still be appealed. Jerry Brown of course won’t do it, and neither will imitation Republican Neel Kashkari if that fraud were to win.
Pete Wilson of course was the governor when Prop 187 was passed, not George Deukmejian.