Assembly Majority Leader Chuck Calderon, D-Montebello, said in a Recorder story last week that he might be willing to temporarily shelve his AB 1208, the Trial Court Rights Act, if there was no organized opposition to the legislation.
Doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.
More than 100 judges — many from Santa Clara County Superior Court — have signed a letter of opposition to AB 1208, saying the bill “would transform the judiciary from a cohesive and co-equal branch of government into 58 fragments.” Presiding judges from some 24 counties signed on.
This follows a storm of emails from judges in support of AB 1208 that flooded branch inboxes on Friday. The presiding judges of at least four trial courts have offered their benches’ backing.
A hearing date has not been scheduled yet for the bill.
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