Deukmejian

=<div>Rep desaulnier said ZEV zero emissin vehicle?</div><div>=</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">Courken George Deukmejian Jr. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none !important;">/djuːkˈmeɪdʒən/</a>;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> born June 6, 1928) is an American politician who was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_California" title="List of Governors of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">35th Governor of California</a> from 1983 to 1991 and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_California" title="Attorney General of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Attorney General of California</a> from 1979 to 1983. Deukmejian was the first and so far the only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor(United_States)" title="Governor (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">governor</a> of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.state" title="U.S. state" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. state</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Americans" title="Armenian Americans" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Armenian</a> descent.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;" xmlns:xml="xml">
</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#Early_years" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early years</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#Political_beginnings" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Political beginnings</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#Governorship" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Governorship</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#Post-governorship" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Post-governorship</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Early years[</h2>Deukmejian was born Courken George Deukmejian Jr. in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menands,New_York" title="Menands, New York" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Menands, New York</a>. His parents were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Armenians</a> who emigrated from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ottoman Empire</a> in the early 1900s to escape the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide" title="Armenian Genocide" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Armenian Genocide</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> His father, George Deukmejian, who lost his sister during the Genocide, was a rug merchant who was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaziantep" title="Gaziantep" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gaziantep</a>. Deukmejian's mother, Alice Gairden,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzurum" title="Erzurum" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Erzurum</a> and worked for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Ward" title="Montgomery Ward" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Montgomery Ward</a> and later for New York State. Deukmejian graduated with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">B.A.</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology" title="Sociology" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sociology</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siena_College" title="Siena College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Siena College</a> in 1949. He then earned a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Juris Doctor</a> (J.D.) from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.John%27s_University,New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="St. John's University, New York" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">St. John's University</a> in 1952. From 1953 to 1955, he served in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Army</a>, assigned to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Advocate_General%27s_Corps" title="Judge Advocate General's Corps" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Judge Advocate General's Corps</a>.Deukmejian moved to California in 1955 where his sister, Anna Ashjian, introduced him to his future wife <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Saatjian" class="mw-redirect" title="Gloria Saatjian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gloria Saatjian</a>, whose parents were immigrants from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Armenia</a>. They married in 1957 and had three children: two daughters, born in 1964 and 1969; and one son, born in 1966.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Political beginnings[</h2>Deukmejian entered politics in California after a short period of private practice in Long Beach alongside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_M.Lucas" class="mw-redirect" title="Malcolm M. Lucas" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Malcolm M. Lucas</a>. In 1962, was elected to represent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach,California" title="Long Beach, California" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Long Beach</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">State Assembly</a>. In 1966, he was elected as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Senate" title="California State Senate" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">state senator</a>, serving from 1967 to 1979. He was a high-profile advocate for capital punishment.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> By 1969, he was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_Leader" class="mw-redirect" title="Majority Leader" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Majority Leader</a> of the California State Senate. He first ran for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_California" title="Attorney General of California" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Attorney General of California</a> in 1970, finishing fourth in the Republican primary. He won the election for Attorney General in 1978 and served from 1979 to 1983. During this time, he led a high-profile campaign against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis" title="Cannabis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">cannabis</a> in northern California, at one point descending by helicopter along with flak-jacketed, gun-toting agents on a cannabis farm.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Governorship[</h2>Deukmejian was elected in 1982 to his first term as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_California" title="Governor of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Governor of California</a>, defeating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant Governor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lieutenant Governor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Curb" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Curb" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Curb</a>, a recording company owner, in the Republican primary (1,165,266 or 51.1 percent to 1,020,935 or 44.8 percent). One of his early primary backers was former gubernatorial candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Shell" title="Joe Shell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joe Shell</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakersfield,California" title="Bakersfield, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bakersfield</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California</a>, a conservative who had opposed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M.Nixon" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard M. Nixon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard M. Nixon</a> in the 1962 primary.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<div class="thumb tleft" style="background-color: transparent; float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 277px;">
<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:3_governors.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" viewbox="%220" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" e="E" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:3_governors.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" viewbox="%220" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" e="E" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brown" title="Jerry Brown" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jerry Brown</a> (left), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Davis" title="Gray Davis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gray Davis</a> (center) and George Deukmejian (right) on September 2, 2010</div></div></div>In the general election, Deukmejian ran as a conservative supporter of public safety and balanced budgets. In addition, he was strongly critical of outgoing Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brown" title="Jerry Brown" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jerry Brown</a> and promised to run a very different administration. He also strongly criticized the state Supreme Court, which was dominated by Brown appointees, notably controversial Chief Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bird" title="Rose Bird" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rose Bird</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Deukmejian narrowly defeated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Angeles</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_Los_Angeles,California" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of Los Angeles, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mayor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bradley(American_politician)" title="Tom Bradley (American politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tom Bradley</a> in the general election. Deukmejian won the election by about 100,000 votes, about 1.2 percent of the 7.5 million votes cast. The victory came despite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_poll" title="Opinion poll" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">opinion polls</a> leading up to the election which consistently showed Bradley with a lead, and despite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_polling" class="mw-redirect" title="Exit polling" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">exit polling</a> conducted after voting closed which led some news organizations on the night of the election to make early projections of a Bradley victory. The discrepancy between the polling numbers and the election's ultimate results would come to be termed the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect" title="Bradley effect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bradley effect</a>", which refers to a hypothesized tendency of white voters to tell interviewers or pollsters that they are undecided or likely to vote for a black candidate, but then actually vote for his opponent. However, the polling ignored absentee balloting, which was an important aspect of Deukmejian's campaign but not of Bradley's.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>Deukmejian's governorship was a departure from that of his predecessor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brown" title="Jerry Brown" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jerry Brown</a>. He vowed not to raise taxes, appealing to the business community by repealing some consumer and environmental requirements. He presented himself as law and order candidate proposing new efforts to fight crime. He faced a Democrat-dominated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Legislature" title="California State Legislature" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">California State Legislature</a> during his two terms as governor. He was the sole Republican statewide officeholder until <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W.Hayes" title="Thomas W. Hayes" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Thomas W. Hayes</a> was appointed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Treasurer" title="California State Treasurer" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">California State Treasurer</a>, following the death of Treasurer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_M.Unruh" title="Jesse M. Unruh" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Jesse Unruh</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]In 1983, Deukmejian abolished the Caltrans Office of Bicycle Facilities and reduced state spending for bicycle projects from $5 million to the statutory minimum of $360,000 per year.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a> In 1984, he vetoed A.B. 1, the first bill to ban discrimination against gays and lesbians, which passed the Legislature. There were rallies and protests statewide.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">citation needed</a>]During his first term, Deukmejian won the voters' approval. In 1986, Bradley sought a rematch and Deukmejian defeated him by a 61% to 37% percent margin, a record not broken as of 2015. Deukmejian served as Governor from 1983 to 1991. He is generally regarded as a moderate-to-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conservative</a> Republican.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]The Deukmejian administration entered office during a national <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_recession" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic recession" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">economic recession</a>. California had a $1.5 billion <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_deficit" class="mw-redirect" title="Budget deficit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">budget deficit</a> with an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_rate" class="mw-redirect" title="Unemployment rate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">unemployment rate</a> of 11.2%. He first halted the hiring of new state employees and banned out of state travel for those in government. He rejected the legislature's demands for tax hikes, and pared $1.1 billion from its budget by selectively vetoing spending items. One year later, further cuts, along with a nationwide economic rebound that benefited the state, created a billion dollar <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus" title="Economic surplus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">surplus</a> for 1985. At one point, his approval ratings had reached 68%. His 1985 budget slightly increased spending in highway construction, but cut heavily into education, health, Welfare and environmental budgets. For this he was roundly criticized, and probably led to his low polling numbers at the end of his tenure as governor.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a>Three years later, Deukmejian faced his own billion dollar deficit.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>] He supported a raise in the state minimum wage in 1989.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>] During Deukmejian's administration, the general fund budget grew by 98% without any increase in general tax rates. (California State general fund budget: 1982–1983 $21.7 billion; 1990–1991 $42.9 billion.)[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Deukmejian largely made his career by being tough on crime.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">citation needed</a>] When he was in the legislature, he wrote California's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">capital punishment</a> law. As a candidate for reelection, in 1986 he opposed the retention election of three Brown-appointed justices of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="California Supreme Court" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">California Supreme Court</a> due to their consistent opposition to the death penalty in any and all circumstances. One of them (the best known) was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bird" title="Rose Bird" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rose Bird</a>, the first female Chief Justice of the Court (and the first one to be voted off). Deukmejian proceeded to elevate his friend and law partner, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_M.Lucas" class="mw-redirect" title="Malcolm M. Lucas" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Malcolm M. Lucas</a>, from Associate Justice to Chief Justice, and appointed three new associate justices. Under Deukmejian, the California prison population nearly tripled – as of December 31, 1982, the total prison population stood at 34,640 inmates. By the end of 1991 the population had reached 97,309.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">citation needed</a>] He increased spending for the building of new prisons.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">citation needed</a>]In 1988, then-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Vice President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George H. W. Bush</a> considered Governor Deukmejian as a possible running mate for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1988" title="United States presidential election, 1988" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">presidential election</a> that year. During a trade mission to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">South Korea</a> in August, Deukmejian sent a letter saying he could not be considered for nomination, refusing to leave the governorship to Democratic Lieutenant Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_T.McCarthy" title="Leo T. McCarthy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Leo T. McCarthy</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[10]</a> Deukmejian did not seek reelection to a third term as governor in the 1990 gubernatorial elections. The Republicans instead nominated sitting United States Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Wilson" title="Pete Wilson" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Pete Wilson</a>, who defeated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein" title="Dianne Feinstein" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Dianne Feinstein</a> in the general election. He was the last governor not affected by the two-term limit that was passed by voters in 1990.On October 1, 1989, Governor Deukmejian signed legislation authorizing the purchasing of health insurance by uninsured Californians suffering from serious illnesses such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease through tobacco tax revenues.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-11" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a>In 1991, in his last two hours in office, he vetoed the property tax exemption bill passed by both houses of the Legislature which applied to companies building solar thermal power plants in California. Although the Legislature enacted the exemption in early 1991, companies would still face significant levels of property tax and other taxes. This exemption was focused towards the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Energy_Generating_Systems" title="Solar Energy Generating Systems" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Solar Energy Generating Systems</a> (SEGS) plants then being built by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrightSource_Energy" title="BrightSource Energy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Luz International Limited (Luz)</a> in the late 1980s.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[12]</a> The veto led directly to the bankruptcy of Luz.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Post-governorship[</h2>Deukmejian was a partner in the law firm of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidley%26_Austin" class="mw-redirect" title="Sidley & Austin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sidley & Austin</a> from 1991 to 2000 when he retired. He reentered public life by serving on special committees, including one to reform the California penal system, and a charter-reform committee in his hometown of Long Beach. He oversaw a revamping of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA" class="mw-redirect" title="UCLA" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">UCLA</a> Willed Body Program after a scandal involving the sale of human body parts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_donation" title="Body donation" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">donated for science</a>.Deukmejian received an honorary doctor of laws degree from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_University,Long_Beach" title="California State University, Long Beach" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California State University, Long Beach</a> in 2008 because of his support for education, state law, and Long Beach.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References[</h2><div class="reflist columns references-column-width" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict?stress=-s&in=DEUKMEJIAN" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Deukmejian"</a>. The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/050200-101.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">the original</a> on 29 June 2011. 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(November 2, 2008). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103002396.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">If Obama Loses: Don't Blame the Bradley Effect"</a>,"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Washington Post</a></li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Alan Wachtel (1990). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cabobike.org/docs/history.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"A History of CABO"</a> (PDF). Bicycle USA. 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Retrieved 2011-01-21.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Time&rft.atitle=New+Governor%2C+New+Style&rft.date=1983-01-17&rft.aulast=Magnuson&rft.aufirst=Ed&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C951852%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Deukmejian" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Stanley, Alessandra (1984-01-23). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,949947,00.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"California's Down-to-Earth Duke"</a>. Time. 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George Deukmejian to Receive Honorary Doctorate Degree from Cal State Long Beach"</a>. California State University, Long Beach. 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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Grant(California_politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Grant (California politician) (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William Grant</a></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 333.375px;">California State Assemblyman, 39th District
1963–1967</td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 246.375px;">Succeeded by
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A.Hayes" title="James A. Hayes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James A. Hayes</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="3" style="border-width: 5px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 191, 0) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177); border-image: initial; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;">Party political offices</th></tr><tr style="text-align: center;"><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 247.375px;">Preceded by
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelle_J.Younger" title="Evelle J. Younger" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Evelle J. Younger</a></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 333.375px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a> nominee for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_California" title="Governor of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Governor of California</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gubernatorial_election,1982" title="California gubernatorial election, 1982" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1982</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gubernatorial_election,1986" title="California gubernatorial election, 1986" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1986</a>
</td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 246.375px;">Succeeded by
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Wilson" title="Pete Wilson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pete Wilson</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="3" style="border-width: 5px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 255) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177); border-image: initial; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;">Political offices</th></tr><tr style="text-align: center;"><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 247.375px;">Preceded by
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brown" title="Jerry Brown" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jerry Brown</a></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 333.375px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_California" title="Governor of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Governor of California</a>
January 3, 1983–January 7, 1991</td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 246.375px;">Succeeded by
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</div><div>Born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,California" title="Berkeley, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Berkeley, California</a>, Lucas earned a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">B.A.</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Southern California</a> in 1950 and an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Bachelor of law" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">LL.B.</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California_Law_School" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Southern California Law School" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Southern California Law School</a> in 1953.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Lucas#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a> From 1954 to 1967, he was in private practice in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach,California" title="Long Beach, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Long Beach, California</a>. From 1967 to 1971, he was a judge on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Superior_Court" title="Los Angeles County Superior Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Los Angeles County Superior Court</a>. In February 1970, Lucas was the trial judge in the prosecution of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson" title="Charles Manson" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Charles Manson</a> for the murder of actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Tate" title="Sharon Tate" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sharon Tate</a>, which continued through January 1971.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Lucas#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Lucas#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Lucas#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a> In June 1970, Lucas had Manson removed from the courtroom due to his disruptive behavior.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Lucas#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[5]</a>On July 8, 1971, President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M.Nixon" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard M. Nixon" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Richard M. Nixon</a> nominated Lucas to a new seat on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Central_District_of_California" title="United States District Court for the Central District of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States District Court for the Central District of California</a> (based in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Los Angeles</a>) created by 84 Stat. 294. He was confirmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Senate</a> on July 29, 1971, and received his commission the same day. In April 1975, Lucas sat as trial judge in the complex <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_Funding" title="Equity Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Equity Funding</a> civil litigation, brought after a $3 billion fraud by executives at a life insurance company. Lucas served on that court until he was tapped to join the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_California" title="Supreme Court of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Supreme Court of California</a> in 1984. He replaced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_K.Richardson" title="Frank K. Richardson" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Frank K. Richardson</a>, former Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a>'s only remaining appointee on the Court.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Lucas#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[6]</a> In November 1986, Lucas was retained by the voters in the election.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Lucas#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a>In the November 1986 California state elections, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian" title="George Deukmejian" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George Deukmejian</a> was reelected Governor and the electorate ejected Chief Justice Bird and two other liberal justices from the state supreme court. Governor Deukmejian and Lucas had once practiced law together many years earlier in Long Beach. After Bird lost her retention election, Deukmejian announced on November 26, 1986 that he would be appointing then-Associate Justice Lucas, his friend and former law partner, to the position of Chief Justice.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Lucas#cite_note-Braitman-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a>On February 19, 1987, Deukmejian then announced the appointment of three new conservative Associate Justices, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eagleson" title="David Eagleson" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">David Eagleson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arguelles" title="John Arguelles" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John Arguelles</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Kaufman" title="Marcus Kaufman" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Marcus Kaufman</a>, thereby creating the first conservative majority on the Court in several decades.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Lucas#cite_note-Braitman-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a> In September 1989, Chief Justice Lucas delivered the "State of the Judiciary" address to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Bar_of_California" title="State Bar of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">State Bar of California</a> annual meeting in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Diego, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">San Diego, California</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Lucas#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[9]</a></div><div></div>