SACRAMENTO — Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday signed a state budget that includes an extra $63 million for courts but deletes Legislature-sought language that would have forced the judiciary to open its many policy- and rule-making meetings to the public.
"This spending provision would create cost pressures on trial courts," Brown said in a veto message, even though the open-meeting provisions were aimed squarely at the Judicial Council's more than two dozen subcommittees and task forces, not the trial courts.
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