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Another instance was the removal of 3 California supreme court justices[1], including the first woman, for over turning too many death penalties and ruling agai
by TomMckenny 8y ago
Another instance was the removal of 3 California supreme court justices[1], including the first woman, for over turning too many death penalties and ruling against insurance companies too often (although the TV campaign to remove focused only insufficient zeal about the death penalty.)
[1]Rose Bird, Cruz Reynoso, Joseph Grodin
- samstave 8y ago>"over turning too many death penalties and ruling against insurance companies too often" Who specifically funded those efforts I wonder...
- mikevp 8y agoIn the case of Rose Bird, at least, it wasn't "overturning too many death penalty cases", it was policy of a blanket rubber-stamp "overturned" on any and all death penalty cases. She was opposed to the death penalty, and was imposing her opinion on the matter over the law.
- TomMckenny 8y agoThat's certainly what the commercials said. But since no actual instance of ignoring the law was ever presented, I'm not sure why calm thinking individuals would solely trust vacuous repetitive hyperbolic TV commercials. And then stretch that to two other Justices. And as we now know the 80's clamor for less and less legal review and more and more executions had pretty bad outcomes[1] [1]https://www.aclu.org/other/dna-testing-and-death-penalty https://www.aclu.org/other/dna-testing-and-death-penalty