(Subscription required) Facing possible disbarment, attorney John Eastman said he was only exploring legal options with the nation's leaders leading up to the Jan. 6. 2021, electoral vote count, not advocating for election results to be tossed out.

(Subscription required) Meltzer understands that in his misdemeanor trial court there will be times when parties disagree with his rulings. "I want them to understand the basis of why I made the ruling. And then they can have a legitimate disagreement with that, but at least they understand where you come to make the decision," he said.

(Subscription required) "We all get along in the family law bench," he asserted, while waiting for his child support orders to come back from a judge right across the hall. "There is not a lot of ego here and we need to work together because we have a lot of the same litigants."

(Subscription required) Throughout her career, she's had to contend with the
weight of being "the first": the first woman of color to head the homicide division of the San
Francisco District Attorney's Office, the first Black woman to sit on the bench in San Francisco
Superior Court, and the first Black woman to ascend to the First Appellate District.