Supreme Court Selection
The letter purportedly from Edmund G. (Pat) Brown may have been a forgery. Surely, the real Pat Brown wouldn’t reopen a wound that must be painful to his son.
Californians did not vote to politicize the Supreme Court and thus obtain judges who would support the death penalty. The vote was not so much against Rose Bird as it was against Jerry Brown, the one who politicized the Supreme Court by appointing judges he could count on to support his own political opposition to our state law.
PHIL LANSDALE
Corona del Mar
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