The word ‘controversial’ caught my eye, too. I thought only conservatives were controversial.
You’d think, tho, that Brown might have learned his lesson. He saw three of his CA Supreme Court justices removed from office, including the much-reviled Rose Bird, Chief Justice.
“You’d think, tho, that Brown might have learned his lesson.”
I think Jerry Brown noticed that the people who had opposed him and his activist judges have largely moved away or died. Most of the current residents weren’t around or are too young to remember.