Creating an outrage and then getting it heard in higher and higher courts can sometimes be how Republicans attempt to install their agenda through the legal system...they've tried it with creationism, then whatever the hell they reframed it as, all through back-handed techniques. They're getting sleazier and sleazier.
I'm perfectly happy to be wrong about this, however. It's just that Ahnold is NOT the state's friend, by any imaginable amount. When he backs something...