James Gallagher Sued to Block Newsom's Order Mailing Every Voter a Ballot. A Week Later, He Voted to Do It Himself.
In June 2020 Gallagher got a Sutter County judge to suspend Newsom's pandemic ballot order, then voted for the law requiring a ballot for every registered voter anyway. He kept suing to limit the governor's emergency powers for another year — and lost at every court above Sutter County.