That was called Prop.187(that voters passed 60-40???)
The way that idiot tried to "weaken the foundations" of this country, I don't think I would trust the structural integrity of one of his Habitat houses, even if I was a hamster.
Suggest you review the decision and the non partisan, legal reviews of the decision at that time. Pfaelzer's decision was defensible enough to be considered a rebuttable presumption considering the precedent she had to work with. The issue was red meat for the SCOTUS who should have been called upon to provide clarification in the matter.
The individual who clearly took the lower road during that contentious process was Gray Davis. In April of 1998 Davis abandoned the state's ongoing appellate process and consented to binding arbitration in the 9th Circuit, implying authority he did not have. His naked pandering not only sold out a super majority of his constituents, but also dealt state's rights a deadly blow. The California Republican Party, equally self serving, did not mount a legal challenge to Davis' unsupported actions fearing erosion of their popularity among the Hispanic electorate because of the race bating the Democrats had injected into the matter.
While Davis's, crass, unilateral decision exhibited the most glaring lack of integrity in this sad affair, the CAGOP's posture was an embarrassment in comparison to Pfaelzer's decision. Many legal scholars agreed that substantial portions of California's appeal were a slam dunk.