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# Measure J versus G fiasco heads to court
- URL: https://www.losangelesrules.com/measure-j-vs-g-fiasco-heads-to-court/
- Published: 2026-06-11T13:47:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-10T04:49:08.000Z
- Description: One county bureaucratic screw-up: Bad. But two? Brilliant!
- Author: Robert Greene
- Tags: Measure G, County executive, Governance, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Measure J, Ethics, County counsel, #featured3

*Update: Trial in the case has been set for Feb. 4 at 1:30 p.m. Meanwhile, in a second attempt to preserve Measure J, the Board of Supervisors added some charter section renumbering to the Nov. 3 ballot measure for an independent Ethics Commission.*

[*This story*](https://haynesfoundation.org/robert-greene-j-or-g/?ref=losangelesrules.com) *was originally published by the* [*John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation*](https://haynesfoundation.org/?ref=losangelesrules.com)*.*

A lawsuit to preserve a mistakenly repealed Los Angeles County charter amendment relies on a novel legal theory: Two wrongs make a right.

Or to put it another way, a single monumental L.A. county screw-up would have been bad, but it was followed up by a second county flub that was so sweepingly inept that it erased the first mistake.

Whether the court will buy the argument is anyone’s guess.

The double error concerns Measure J, a 2020 ballot measure that sets an annual spending floor for alternatives to incarceration and racial equity programs, and Measure G, a 2024 measure to expand the Board of Supervisors, create an elected executive, establish an Ethics Commission and make several other governance reforms.

Without judicial or voter intervention, Measure J will be inadvertently repealed in 2028 when the elected executive provisions, a key portion of Measure G, kick in.

[*Continue reading*](https://haynesfoundation.org/robert-greene-j-or-g/?ref=losangelesrules.com) *at the* [*John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation*](https://haynesfoundation.org/?ref=losangelesrules.com)