In today’s Judiciary Council report, the demographic details of the bench were not altogether impressive:<\/p>\n
“The Judicial Council report reveals that white trial and appellate judges now account for 72.3 percent of the judiciary, down fractionally from 2010 but up from 70.1 percent in 2006. At the same time, however, the report shows gains by every other ethnic and racial group, as well as by women, who are now nearly 31 percent of judges, including a brand-new chief justice, Tani Cantil-Sakauye.” (SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The judiciary needs to become more representative as soon as possible. Most importantly, it increases the legitimacy of the courts within all communities. Diversity gives us all a sense of ownership of our justice system, and grants legitimacy to the system.<\/p>\n
Governor Brown will have an opportunity to increase that diversity on the Supreme Court, as Justice Moreno officially retired this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In today’s Judiciary Council report, the demographic details of the bench were not altogether impressive:<\/p>\n
“The Judicial Council report reveals that white trial and appellate judges now account for 72.3 percent of the judiciary, down fractionally from 2010 but up from 70.1 percent in 2006. At the same time, however, the report shows gains by every other ethnic and racial group, as well as by women, who are now nearly 31 percent of judges, including a brand-new chief justice, Tani Cantil-Sakauye.” (SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The judiciary needs to become more representative as soon as possible. Most importantly, it increases the legitimacy of the courts within all communities. Diversity gives us all a sense of ownership of our justice system, and grants legitimacy to the system.<\/p>\n
Governor Brown will have an opportunity to increase that diversity on the Supreme Court, as Justice Moreno officially retired this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3qU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}