“California Supreme Court and state appeals court justices face easy election road”

So reports Howard Mintz in the San Jose Mercury News.  For the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal candidates on this year’s ballot, he says “it most definitely is not 1986,” when a big money campaign purged the Supreme Court of three of its seven members.  Mintz quotes one observer, ” ‘That’s not this election, or any one we can foresee in the near future.’ ”  That may be true of 2014, but, as Iowa and Tennessee have shown, the next “100-year flood” might not be too far off.