On Thursday, August 28, 2014, the Commission on Judicial Appointments will hold a hearing on Governor Brown’s nomination of Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar to the California Supreme Court. The Commission members are Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Kamala Harris, and soon-to-retire Second District Court of Appeal Presiding Justice Joan Dempsey Klein.
After that hearing, which is scheduled for 9:00 a.m., the Commission will evaluate three Court of Appeal nominations. (They’re all nominations, rather than appointments, because all will fill positions with terms expiring this January. Also, because they are nominations, we believe that these confirmation hearings all must be held after August 15 and before September 15. At least, that’s how we read the state constitution.)
The hearing on Cuéllar’s nomination is likely to be televised on the California Channel; the hearings for Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye and Justice Liu were.