State Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuellar on Growing Up in a Border Town and Switching from Academia to the Courts

Published: Jan. 24, 2020, 2:30 a.m.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed becomes the latest California mayor to endorse Michael Bloomberg in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination (0:32), and the impeachment battle heats up in Washington (4:10). Then, California Supreme Court associate justice Mariano-Florentino Cu\xe9llar joins to talk about what it was like making the switch from academia to the courts (8:50), crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as a kid with his grandmother to get McDonald's (13:20) and what he thinks makes a good judge (25:25).\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices