Government,
California Supreme Court
Dec. 6, 2021
Governor likely to name Latina to high court, sources say
“Latinas are 20% of California’s population, and there has never been a Latina appointed to the California Supreme Court,” said Sonja Diaz, founding director of the Latino Policy & Politics Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom will probably nominate a new Supreme Court Justice before the end of the year, and the leading candidates are Latina, according to sources speaking off the record.
The pick would fill the opening left when Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar resigned in October to become president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Cuéllar's departure left the...
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