Pension Voodoo: How Courts Render Constitutional Provisions Meaningless

Tim Kowal reports:

Last week, California Attorney General candidate John Eastman made an exciting promise that, if elected, he would tackle the state’s crippling unfunded pension liability problem by considering a challenge on the constitutional validity of such pension contracts. Now, this comes as little surprise to me since, as a former student of and legal assistant to Eastman at Chapman Law, I have learned to look first at just such grounds for making legal challenges. What is exciting about the promise is not that it presents a novel approach to the problem.

Uh-oh.