SCOTUS news & Recalling Rose Bird

 Law.com has two SCOTUS stories of note:

Public Approval, Confidence in the US Supreme Court Nose-Dived in July -- The public's approval is now more sharply polarized along party lines than it was in March, a new survey found.

when asked what most often motivates the justices’ decisions—mainly law or mainly politics—those saying that the justices’ decisions are based mainly on politics has increased from 35% in 2019 to 52% in July 2022, the survey reported.

A SCOTUS Artist Recounts 4 Decades of Sketches -- "That year of COVID when I didn’t have to go in [to the Supreme Court building] and commute, it's really the commute that convinced me to retire," said Lien, who lives in Maryland. "I was going to stay on until cameras came in. I wanted to be the last court artist."

For more than four decades, artist Art Lien’s sketches have been a reliable window into the courtroom of the U.S. Supreme Court, where they sometimes captured the anger of a dissenting justice, the meaning in a justice’s jabot, or the passion of an advocate. Lien put aside his sketchbook and familiar opera glasses and retired at the end of this past term. Lien has sketched courts since 1976

Today's DJ has David Carrillo and Stephen Duvernay's Rose Bird was not recalled -- "Former California Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird was many things. One thing she was not: recalled."

The upshot is that these are the true facts:
Rose Bird, Joseph Grodin, and Cruz Reynoso were not retained.
No California Supreme Court justice has ever faced a recall ballot.
No California appellate justice has ever faced a recall ballot.
No California appellate justice has ever been recalled.

(The piece was prompted by a recent article that stated that Rose Bird had been 'recalled.')

Yesterday's DJ had Expect Supreme Court to revisit more major issues, conservative lawyer tells 9th Circuit

A prominent conservative appellate specialist told the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference Monday that the past U.S. Supreme Court term will have “potentially huge jurisprudential significance” affecting Second Amendment rights and administrative agencies for years to come. “I think this was the most consequential Supreme Court term not only of my career but also my lifetime,” Kannon K. Shanmugam, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, told an audience of federal judges gathered in Big Sky, Montana.

He pointed out that the 9th Circuit was reversed in 11 of the 12 cases considered by the Supreme Court, with the only surviving case deemed improvidently granted, to chuckles from the audience.