The State - News from April 10, 1985

California Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird told a television interviewer she isn’t worried about the confirmation election she must face next year. In a rare taped interview, aired on “CBS Morning News,” the 48-year-old jurist denied charges from conservatives that she is soft on crime and unresponsive to business interests. Bird said she has been instrumental in opening the court to the public and television and works “very, very hard to uphold the law and to ensure that it is enforced.” As to the campaign to unseat her when she runs for a new 12-year term in November, 1986, she said she had learned to “live each day as it comes. You don’t always live your life for reelection. . . . I don’t worry about the future very much.”