Partisan judges won’t be neutral on redistricting
Re “Redistricting Back on Ballot,” Aug. 13
The idea that having judges design legislative districts will somehow remove politics from the process is laughable considering that judges are politicians.
Without finishing the article, you only need to know the political affiliation of the Supreme Court justices to know how they voted.
The conservative Republicans ignored the unambiguous law to support their governor’s initiative while the lone moderate and Democrat voted to bar the illegally qualified initiative as the law requires.
Republican governors have been appointing judges in our state for most of the last 20 years, which explains why they prefer judges designing the legislative districts or, on the federal level, picking our president.
JOEL C. KOURY
Santa Monica
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