EDITOR’S COLUMN
I have been getting notices for a virtual town hall on “judicial independence” from San Bernardino Superior Court, and I didn’t feel like I fully understood what that meant, so I called Superior Judge John Pacheco, who will moderate the event.
He said, though I paraphrase, that the framework of our nation, with separate branches of government duty bound to check and balance one another, must be neither ignored nor forgotten.
“The general public doesn’t understand how precious our system of government and democracy is,” he said. “We’re trying to educate them.”
Political party should not be a factor when
