So, Chief Justice Ronald George is retiring next January.  Wants to spend more time "with his family" he says.  Also time for traveling, time to enjoy his retirement. Lucky him.

Let’s have a look at where he will be leaving the system, the system of justice we have endured and continue to endure on his watch here in California.

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We hope that our next chief justice will see it as his first priority to clean up the shocking performance record of Family Court and Probate judges (usually interchangeable), how they’re elected, and how they operate under their current algorithms. He will have left an array of cases showing legal dysfunction at its worst.  Perhaps now he will have time to think about the legacy he left behind, and the new Keeper can learn from it.

Most of all, it’s time to think about the pro ses and pro pers, who labor under a system that favors lying lawyers, and discourages the use of our courts by we the people, exercising our constitutional right to appear unrepresented in court, and insist on being treated with due respect and equality. Let judges act more like umpires applying the rules, and less like lawyers bending them.