“He is the first judge recalled in California in more than 80 years.”
That is not true! Californians recalled Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird of the State Supreme Court in 1986, a Jerry the Fairy Brown appointee.
Read This:
“In 1985, Bird said in some interviews that opposition to her was based on sexism, bigotry, and right wing ideology led by then U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese. She stated “These are bully boys. Meese is trying it on the Supreme Court.” In fact, Meese had never participated in any of the recall or judicial retention campaigns involving Bird or other members of the California Supreme Court. The statements raised further questions about her partisanship and personal temperament. Even many Democrats later conceded that the remarks backfired on her and other members of the court apppointed by Governor Brown.
Bird reviewed a total of 64 capital cases appealed to the court. In each instance she issued a decision overturning the death penalty that had been imposed at trial. She was joined in her decision to overturn by at least three other members of the court in 61 of those cases. This led Bird’s critics to claim that she was substituting her own opinions and ideas for the laws and precedents upon which judicial decisions are supposed to be made. She also ruled that the state Constitution required that the state provide free abortions for poor women. In 1982, a Bird ruled that the proposed California Proposition 8 (1982), known as The Victims’ Bill of Rights, not be allowed on the ballot. A 4-3 majority of the Court allowed it to be voted on. In 1984, Bird and a majority of the Court it granted the American Federation of Labor’s 1984 original petition to block a balanced budget amendment proposition from appearing on the ballot. In addition, the Bird court struck down California’s “use a gun, go to jail” law that made a prison term mandatory for any crime in which the use of a gun was involved. The anti-Bird campaign ran television commercials featuring the relatives of the victims of the murderers whose sentences Bird and her fellow justices Cruz Reynoso, Joseph Grodin, and Allen Broussard had voted to reverse. She was removed in the November 4, 1986 election by a margin of 67% to 33% after a high-profile campaign that cited her categorical opposition to the death penalty. In addition to Bird, Reynoso and Grodin were also voted off the seven-justice California state supreme court bench. Justice Stanley Mosk, who often joined Bird, Reynoso, and Grodin, was not challenged, nor were the other three justices.”
“He is the first judge recalled in California in more than 80 years.”
My first thought also was also “Rose Bird”.