Veteran California political journalist Dan Walters writes about Governor Jerry Brown’s long delay in naming a replacement for retired Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Werdegar, which he says is likely “a tricky bit of political business by Brown, whose second governorship will end in January.”
He mentions stuff we’ve talked about: that the Governor might be waiting so he can “protect[] his choice from facing voters until the next non-presidential election in 2022” (see here) and that “[t]here’s been some speculation that his final Supreme Court appointee might be a University of Michigan Law School graduate named Anne Gust Brown, who was a corporate attorney before marrying the former and future governor of California and becoming his closest political confidante and advisor” (see here).
