One L.A. County Superior Court judge deserves reelection. Another doesn't

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One L.A. County Superior Court judge deserves reelection. Another doesn't
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For the first time in three decades, The Times recommends the ouster of an incumbent judge. Another challenged judge should be reelected.

Californians want their trial judges to be both independent and accountable. The tension between those two competing goals can never be fully resolved but is partially addressed by a judicial election system in which they are automatically reelected every six years without their names even appearing on the ballot. Unless, that is, they are challenged.

The twist in this race is that Olson likewise had no justification for challenging well-regarded jurist Dzintra Janavs in 2006. Olson was an inactive attorney who ran a bakery and was poorly qualified to be a judge, but she defeated Janavs, most likely because voters who have little information when selecting judges were put off by the incumbent’s foreign-sounding name. Janavs was so eminently qualified that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger almost immediately appointed her back to the court.

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