The lawsuit that civil rights attorney Molly Munger has filed, alleging that Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax increase ballot measure was given preferential treatment over her rival tax proposal, is important unto itself.

She’s challenging a bill that Brown and the Legislature enacted to elevate the governor’s sales and income tax measure to the top of the November ballot and also election officials’ signature-validation procedures that, she says, gave Brown preferential treatment.

Brown and his fellow Democrats in the Legislature have been pushing – and perhaps tearing – the envelope of what constitutes a legitimate budget “trailer” bill under a 2010 amendment to the state constitution that lowered the budget vote margin from two-thirds to a simple majority.

via Dan Walters: Molly Munger’s lawsuit escalates war against Jerry Brown’s tax measure.