The latest effort to secede from California is growing in rural El Dorado County, which sits just east of Sacramento and has fewer than 200,000 residents. But experts say it's unlikely to take hold.
San Bernardino County voters narrowly approved a measure directing officials to review how to secure more resources and funding — “up to and including secession from the State of California.”, a UCLA law professor who focuses on constitutional law. He pointed out that being a county before statehood — which is the case for much of the East Coast and many other regions — doesn’t alter the legitimacy of the state.
Changing any state’s boundaries, per the Constitution, requires the approval of Congress and the state Legislature, no matter the grievances, Michaels said. “It’s kind of one of these things that’s like cathartic, maybe a symbolic thing,” Michaels said, “but there’s really nothing that could ever happen with this.”
But Durst said the group’s effort has already gained more support than she expected, especially so quickly. She first presented the plan in a May 24 meeting at a community hall, and it was picked up in the“It spread like wildfire, much to my surprise,” Durst said.
“I have always thought that California was too big and too diverse to be one state,” Durst said. “I’m so excited and thrilled by what has happened ... and we just [got] set up.”
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