SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown will release his revised budget on May 14, and the question is no longer whether it will include more cuts to courts but rather how ugly will those cuts be.
Nobody is sure of the specific budget blood-letting the May Revise will prescribe. The state’s tax revenues for the current fiscal year are running $3.5 billion below projections, and spending has been billions higher than predicted, too, according to the state controller’s office. That’s on top of the $9.2 billion deficit Brown’s January budget envisioned.
