Excerpt: Two innovative bills recently approved by the California Legislature are on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s desk. One would make the state’s justice system fairer and more efficient. The other would improve public safety. Neither would add to California’s fiscal woes, and both would set a worthy example for the nation.

The first bill would expand legal services for the poor. The nation as a whole does a dismal job of providing the indigent with legal counsel in child custody and domesticviolence cases, foreclosure actions and other civil cases where basic rights are in peril.

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