Today is Election Day across the country. It’s also a good time to note that it will be election day next year — in 364 days to be exact — for two or three California Supreme Court justices.
Justices Joshua Groban and Kelli Evans will be on the ballot for “yes” or “no” votes whether they should remain on the court. Also on the ballot will be whomever Governor Gavin Newsom picks to fill the vacancy created by Justice Martin Jenkins’s recent retirement, assuming the appointment is made before mid-August of next year.
Justice Groban was elected four years ago, but, because he was elected to an unexpired term that ends in January 2027, he will be on the ballot again next year, this time seeking a 12-year term of his own. This will be Justice Evans’s first time on the ballot, even though I think she should also have been on the ballot in 2022. Like Justice Groban, Justice Evans will be up for a 12-year term; the term to which she was appointed expires in January 2027.
Related:
Legislation to cut back on elections of Supreme Court justices appears ended
The specter of more frequent “100-year floods”
“Thirty Years After a Hundred Year Flood: Judicial Elections and the Administration of Justice” (also here)
