We recommend voting Yes to retain all eleven Court of Appeal justices on your ballot.

Appellate justices in California don't run against anyone. Voters answer yes or no on whether each one keeps the seat. Our rule is simple: retain a judge unless there is serious misconduct on the record, or poor judgment that deviates from legal norms. Even when a judge repeatedly makes judgments we disagree with, if they're following the law then we should focus on changing the law, not the judge.

We checked the Commission on Judicial Performance, which publishes every public censure, admonishment, and removal in California, and none of these eleven justices appears in it.