Judges usually manage to stay out of the news, but two of them in California have been getting lots of national attention lately: U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San Diego, and Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky….

Oliver Cromwell, the great revolutionary of 17th century England, once addressed a group of differing English lords and said to them, “Gentlemen, I beseech you in the bowels of Christ to consider the possibility that you may be wrong.” This…