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Re:California governor signs overhaul of bail system by TomMckenny on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @10:11PM (#17864835)
Another instance was the removal of 3 California supreme court justices[1], including the first woman, for over turning too many death penalties and ruling against insurance companies too often (although the TV campaign to remove focused only insufficient zeal about the death penalty.)

[1]Rose Bird, Cruz Reynoso, Joseph Grodin

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Re:California governor signs overhaul of bail system by samstave on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @01:45AM (#17865962)
>"over turning too many death penalties and ruling against insurance companies too often"

Who specifically funded those efforts I wonder...

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Re:California governor signs overhaul of bail system by mikevp on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:33PM (#17871062)
In the case of Rose Bird, at least, it wasn't "overturning too many death penalty cases", it was policy of a blanket rubber-stamp "overturned" on any and all death penalty cases. She was opposed to the death penalty, and was imposing her opinion on the matter over the law.
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Re:California governor signs overhaul of bail system by TomMckenny on Friday August 31, 2018 @01:44AM (#17883226)
That's certainly what the commercials said. But since no actual instance of ignoring the law was ever presented, I'm not sure why calm thinking individuals would solely trust vacuous repetitive hyperbolic TV commercials.

And then stretch that to two other Justices.

And as we now know the 80's clamor for less and less legal review and more and more executions had pretty bad outcomes[1]

[1]https://www.aclu.org/other/dna-testing-and-death-penalty

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