{"id":25698,"date":"2026-06-24T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?guid=d69d5ba03e18136c3df895e082e7e7c1"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:39:00","slug":"more-than-100-retired-california-judges-create-wall-of-justice-to-defend-the-rule-of-law-an-independent-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?p=25698","title":{"rendered":"More Than 100 Retired California Judges Create \u201cWall of Justice\u201d to Defend the Rule of Law & An Independent Judiciary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nVideo Project Reaffirms Judges\u2019 Constitutional Oaths in Honor of America\u2019s 250th <\/sup>Celebration<\/i><\/b><\/p>

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--More than 100 retired California judges donned their robes and renewed their lifetime oaths of office to affirm the vital importance of an independent judiciary and the rule of law. The resulting \"Wall of Justice\" video brings together individual recordings from participating judges into a single, powerful tribute.<\/p><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>

\nThe Wall of Justice is presented by the California Judges Association\u2019s Retired Judges Initiative (RJI) in celebration of the 250th<\/sup> anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The full Wall of Justice video can be found here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/m_lpnkZMbGc<\/a><\/p>

\n\u201cThe judiciary has increasingly become the subject of misinformation, misunderstanding, and unfair criticism, which erodes public confidence in the judicial branch,\u201d said Retired Santa Barbara County Judge George C. Eskin, who spearheaded the Wall of Justice Project. \u201cWe are using our collective voice to demonstrate the power of the third branch, defend the rule of law, and reinforce the commitment every California judge makes to ensuring impartiality and administering equal justice under the law.\u201d<\/p>

\nResponding to an imperative need to speak up when ethical canons prohibit their sitting colleagues from doing so, RJI has assembled the largest organized group of retired state judges in the nation, including retired California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye. This gathering of distinguished jurists hopes to model and inspire similar groups of state court judges throughout the country to reinforce the message that judicial independence is not a privilege for judges.<\/p>

\nThe Wall of Justice is the RJI\u2019s second public project, following the release of a Declaration of Judicial Independence<\/a> signed by more than 100 justices, judges, and commissioners to honor Constitution Day on September 17, 2025.<\/p>

\nThe RJI is a subcommittee of the California Judges Association\u2019s Judicial Fairness Coalition (JFC) and is comprised of over 186 retired judicial officers. You can find more information on the JFC and RJI here: https:\/\/www.caljudges.org\/JFC\/.<\/a><\/p> Contacts<\/b>

\nMedia Contact:\n<\/b>Karen Korr\nfor the Judicial Fairness Coalition\nkaren@fullkorrpress.com<\/a>Cell: (619) 944-0650<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Video Project Reaffirms Judges\u2019 Constitutional Oaths in Honor of America\u2019s 250th CelebrationSACRAMENTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–More than 100 retired California judges donned their robes and renewed their lifetime oaths of office to affirm the vital …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infos-businesswire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25699,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25698\/revisions\/25699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}