Now that San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer has survived Michael Nava’s attempt to unseat him, it’s worth asking whether the result and the debate about judicial independence that attended the race will prove consequential.
I believe the consequences will be salutary. The fact that a respected judge vigorously supported by his peers and the legal community was able to resist a strong political challenge will, I think, diminish the dangers that trial judges may pay undue attention to the political consequences of their legal determinations and able lawyers may lose interest in appointment to a politicized court.
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