Discussion: California Supreme Court Chief Justice Left GOP After Kavanaugh Hearings

Indeed. I wonder what the roots of her family’s allegiance to the Old, Pragmatic Republican Party was. I imagine perhaps some affiliation with Nixon, since he was from California. Or perhaps some antipathy for some Democrat president or politician or their policies. But I think this is a very important story. There are a lot of people of integrity leaving the GOP.
My wife was a language policy scholar who had professional colleagues in California. We once traveled to a conference at Stanford, I went along as a respite from a strike at one of my jobs. She was very saddened when English Only passed in California. Sometimes I wish she could see how that was the GOP’s overkill poison pill.

It was Pete Wilson’s downfall, a classic overreach in a state where so many came from other places.

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