The Los Angeles Times editorial page this morning urges a “yes” vote this November for the three Supreme Court justice candidates on the ballot, as well as for all the Court of Appeal justice candidates up for election this year. Justices Kathryn Werdegar and Goodwin Liu, and Justice-in-waiting Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, get the newspaper’s endorsement.
Perhaps because they are on the ballot for the first time, Liu and Cuéllar get the most individualized discussion in the editorial. Cuéllar is called “a solid choice with a thoughtful and academic bent well-suited to the state’s high court.” As for Liu, the Times notes both the earlier right-wing filibuster of his nomination to a federal appellate court and his recent statement as a California Supreme Court justice in favor of removing the anti-Citizens United proposition from the ballot and opines, “It may seem odd that a state justice formerly blocked by politicians on the right should write an opinion that so antagonized people on the left. But good justices — and Liu is one of them — routinely write controversial opinions that reach their conclusions based on the law as written and understood by the entire court, and not on a single justice’s ideology.”
The Times recognizes generally that, “[a]s in all judicial elections, the voters’ chief challenge is finding enough information about the candidates to make wise choices.” But it 
offers some solutions, including, “ask the opinions of attorneys who argue their cases at the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.” Horvitz & Levy attorneys are standing by.
