"The governor wanted justice to be sure as well as just, and to be perceived as such by Californians," said Douglas W. Kmiec, who was constitutional legal counsel in the Reagan and the George H.W. Bush presidencies. "Deukmejian's judges tended to be law-and-order judges. They knew the law well, and they did not look to make new law from the bench."

Source: Los Angeles Times May 08, 2018 23:08 UTC