In the newest episode of the CITIZENARTS’ series IN THEIR WORDS: What public officials do for us, we focus our lens on the U.S. judicial system and meet Justice Adrienne Grover of the California 6th District Court of Appeal. Justice Grover -- a self-described “nonjudgmental judge” -- speaks definitively and inspiringly in a time of mounting misinformation, distortion and hyperbole aimed at the role of law and our judiciary.

As Justice Grover puts it: “You are just confronted with so much humanity in each case; ultimately you come away with a deep appreciation for the human condition.” Justice Grover presides over a vast array of cases: the CA Courts of Appeal see the largest number of decisions appealed to the state supreme court and to the U.S. Supreme Court. The 6th District alone decides over 900 appeals and disposes of 500 writ petitions annually.

We are grateful to Justice Grover for expanding our insight into and deepening our knowledge of the essential role justices perform at the state level. We learned so much spending time with the justice – and expect you will too.

EPISODE NOTES:
More about IN THEIR WORDS: What public officials do for us can be found at https://www.citizenartscreative.org/intheirwords

Details about the California 6th District Court of Appeal: https://www.courts.ca.gov/3009.htm

Associate Justice Adrienne Grover biography: https://www.courts.ca.gov/21533.htm

Civic education is important but disappearing, as evidenced by a recent assessment: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1173432887/history-and-civics-scores-drop-for-u-s-eighth-graders-on-national-test

For more on civic education, check out this NPR interview with Richard Haass, former diplomat and president of the Council of Foreign Relations, about his new book, The Bill of Obligations, The Ten Habits of Good Citizens.
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/24/1150942762/in-new-book-haass-explores-the-obligations-we-have-to-one-another-and-the-countr

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