My impression is that the majority had its conclusion all set to go, and then reverse engineered a rationale. The majority opinion reads like the mutterings of the seedy guy at the end of the bar for all its jurisprudence.

And a prime example of politicizing the judiciary.

That state gives "diploma privilege" to graduates of its own in-state law schools, allowing those graduates to practice law without passing a bar exam. It's the only state in the nation that allows such practice.

You didn’t have to go to law school. You simply had to pass the bar. That was abandoned back in the 1960s, I think, but there was still one attorney practicing who hadn’t gone to law school when I started practicing in 1987.

California does not require all its attorneys to attend law school. One can "read the law" under supervision of a licensed attorney for a number of years and then be eligible to sit for the bar exam. Very few people have been successful accomplishing this feat however - hell, the vast majority of law school graduates fail our state's bar exam every year. The latest exam had a pass rate under 30%.

with "irregularities".

One of the four votes to overturn the governor's order was the Chief Justice who during last week's arguments discounted the importance of deaths at meat packing plants since those weren't "regular people" who died.

Gerrymandering doesn't apply in this case.

FYI.

Evil aka Johnson/Vos/Fitzgerald. Wasn't thinking.

The GOP playbook seems to involve using one of "their" states as a guinea pig for doing their crazy shit and then when they find out what works other states will follow. That has apparently been the model for "open carry," voter suppression(?), etc.