Supreme Court Justices
Let me get this straight. In 1986, right-wing Republicans called for the ouster of three state Supreme Court justices appointed by Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. The reason: the failure to have an execution since the death penalty was reinstated by the voters in 1978. Now in 1990, five justices, appointed by Gov. George Deukmejian, are on the ballot. During the past four years, under the Deukmejian court, there has been no execution and yet we hear a deafening silence by the jackals of the right.
Is it political expediency in 1990 or was it political expediency in 1986?
STEVEN GLAZER
North Hollywood
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