Oct. 9, 2026
Mori aims to bring equal-treatment focus to law, judging
Justice Audra Mori, whose family's wartime internment shaped her views on fairness and equal treatment, has written opinions emphasizing statutory language and legal boundaries as she faces voters Nov. 3.
Justice Audra M. Mori's father was a boy when he was sent to an internment camp in Wyoming during World War II. One of the few stories he told about it was of a pet chick that froze to death overnight.
"Japanese Americans don't really talk about it that much," Mori told the Daily Journal in 2019, when she was a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge. She said she pieced together her family's history from such anecdotes, and law classes she took in college to...
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