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Editorials imploring courts to uphold precedents often involve musty, ancient rulings. So here's something novel: We ask the California Supreme Court to honor the precedent it set all of 15 days ago. What's at stake – Proposition 77, an initiative taking away state lawmakers' anti-democratic power to draw their own election boundaries – is crucial to ending the gross dysfunction paralyzing California's government. This plea is necessary because on Tuesday the 3rd District Court of Appeal upheld a ruling kicking Proposition 77 off the November special election ballot. In a 2-1 decision, the court held that minor discrepancies between the...

Former Bush aid says 2008 Democratic nomination belongs to Hillary Clinton SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A former aide to President Bush says the 2008 Democratic nomination for president is all Hillary Rodham Clinton's if she wants it. But former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said Clinton, now a Democratic senator representing New York, has no chance of actually becoming president. Fleischer's comments were made Friday as he spoke at an Oneida County luncheon attended by supporters of Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-New Hartford. Fleischer said there's not a Democrat anywhere in the country that can beat Mrs. Clinton in a Democratic primary....