SACRAMENTO — During his annual address to the state Legislature last week, Chief Justice Ronald George insisted that the judiciary, while fiscally challenged, remains “robust and resilient.”

But as George approaches his 14th anniversary as California’s top judge, his vision for the nation’s largest judicial branch seems far more vulnerable. A slew of challenges emerging from both inside and outside the courts threaten to stall, if not completely derail, plans he has so carefully crafted.

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