PBCAHSR will have to prove in court they are not in willful violation of specific provisos of Prop 1a now that this thing has been underway for more than a decade. That is the reason you will not see diesel passenger trains on the line - a gross violation of the stipulations laid out in the enabling legislation and one Flashman would go after for sure.

The judges are Party puppets but at a certain point of casuistry they risk beginning to look so like servile stooges of Brown-Newsom & co. to even the ordinary civilians.