Commentary
California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye announced she’s retiring on Jan. 1, 2023. The Associated Press story reported, “Cantil-Sakauye indirectly contrasted the California justices’ good working relationship to the vitriol and distrust on the U.S. Supreme Court particularly since a leak of the high court’s pending abortion decision earlier this year.”
Cantil-Sakauye herself said, “That trust and respect and collegiality … makes for, I think, why California at the high court operates so well together.”
Actually, it’s because Republican Govs. Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger were pro-choice and tried to appoint pro-choice justices with similar views to justices appointed by Democratic Govs. Gray Davis, Jerry Brown, and Gavin Newsom….