The fact that the October bar exam did not suffer system-wide failure is a boon. But, this moment is no victory. The California Supreme Court and the State Bar played chance with our lives. They get no credit for completing the game.

(Subscription required) McLaughlin’s next goal is to establish a drunk driving court in South Lake Tahoe. El Dorado County’s only one is in the county seat of Placerville, 60 miles down the hill — far from ideal for people who may have suspended licenses and trouble staying sober.

In an op-ed published Tuesday in the Sacramento Bee, University of California Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky promoted Associate Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu as a person of “integrity and experience” whose service as attorney general “would be of enormous benefit to California.”

The public can tune in to nonconfidential proceedings on their computer or smartphone through the new service aimed at reducing the number of people in the hundreds of courtrooms across the county amid the nearly yearlong public health crisis.