Inside Appalling Plot To Stack California Courts With Ultra Liberal Judges Who Don’t Believe in Prisons
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In 1970, a 17-year-old black militant pulled a gun from beneath his coat at the Marin County Hall of Justice. He took control of Courtroom 3, distributing weapons bought by Angela Davis to three inmates, including one on trial for assaulting a prison guard. They took the judge, prosecutor and three jurors hostage. An hour later, the judge and three of the perpetrators were dead.
The vigilantes failed to break the legal system.
Today, a new crop of radicals in California is pursuing that goal by other means. These activists hope to infiltrate the judiciary and use the levers of power to upend American justice.
Los Angeles County is the seat of the revolution. Across two recent election cycles, hard-left activists spent nearly $1 million on a slate of judicial candidates, electing three judges committed to remaking the county’s criminal-justice system. For the ideologues behind the campaign, this the opening move in what they hope will be a national takeover of the judiciary.
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Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute. Austen Hufford is a senior investigative reporter at City Journal.