DOES PUTIN INFLUENCE CALIFORNIA?

CALIFORNIA IS STARVING ITS COURT SYSTEM. Our legislature is trying to silence our major attorney's association, so that they are unable to fight for justice for everyone.

Courts are our most important bailiwick against injustice. Without attorneys, the inarticulate cannot get justice.

LGBT and other nonconformists get representation from California attorneys in order to request justice from California courts.

Putin regularly arrests civil rights attorneys. Russia's court system answers to Putin, not to justice.

California Courts have been lauded for their commitment to justice.

But now that California is rich again, our courts still do not have enough money to keep the clerk's office open in the branch courts. You can no longer call the courts on the phone. If you mail in something to file, it waits over a month to be filed.

This is only going to get worse as courts stop assessing fines which harm the poor.

Sometimes the attacks on the essential services that keeps California strong and wealthy are subtle. Our famously fair justice system is one of the fundamental reasons that people of all varieties are comfortable being themselves while living here.

If we starve the courts of monies they need to run the day to day justice, justice slows, then sometimes disappears.

The California Bar Association is a state wide attorney organization that should be able to alert us all to such a failure to fund the courts. Right now the California legislature is not allowing the Bar Association to collect dues from attorneys. (Attorney associations are always SO critical of bad legislation.)

Keep California great. Spend the holidays fussing about funding our courts. Insist that the legislature stop preventing attorneys from associating with each other, and disciplining each other.

LET'S KEEP OUR CALIFORNIA JUSTICE SYSTEM, WHICH ENFORCES JUSTICE FOR ALL!