Posted on 07/26/2011 10:15:53 AM PDT by jazusamo
Gov. Jerry Brown nominated UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to the California Supreme Court Tuesday, giving the state high court a fourth Asian justice and a collegial liberal who is likely to be strongly supportive of civil rights.
Liu was President Obama's pick for a seat on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, but he failed to garner enough Republican support. Liu, 40, has never been a judge, but his colleagues at Berkeley, including conservatives, strongly endorsed him for the position.
Liu, a graduate of Yale Law School, is the son of Taiwanese immigrants. He was born in Georgia, grew up in Sacramento and has a history of public service.
Liu was a controversial pick for Obama, who nominated him twice. Senate Republicans criticized Liu's selection, saying that he was too left-leaning. Liu marked the first judicial pick to be blocked outright on the Senate floor since George W. Bush's first term.
[Updated at 9 a.m.: Liu is considered an expert on constitutional law, education policy, civil rights and the Supreme Court.
Before joining the Berkeley Law faculty in 2003, Liu was an appellate litigator at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and for Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He also served as special assistant to the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education and as senior program officer for higher education at the Corporation for National Service (AmeriCorps).]
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He was rejected by the US Congress as a fully-functioning Marxist...now, the Great Union Governor Jerry Brown wants a him to infect the CA Supreme Court with unbridled Communism.
The people who voted against the grown-up, Meg Whitman, deserve this fiend.
No. There are not.
This is just the lying LA Times trying to keep those normal people still left in California from getting too overly upset. Liu is as lefty loony as it gets. A real, full-of-himself, bloated scumbag.
FRegards,
LH
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That may be the death of the state.
A staunch conserative at Berkeley is the same as a moderate liberal in any other part of the country. IMO
And I highly doubt there are any “staunch conseratives” at Berkeley.
So that would make the “conseratives” mere socialists as opposed to the liberals who are all out Marxists/communists.
Yes, like anything that ends with "justice," such as "social justice." Second Amendment rights? Not so much.
We took a bullet for the rest of the country on this one. He could have done a lot more damage on the 9th Circuit.
Goodie. He’ll make Rose Bird look like Jesse Helms.
You're right, and the guy is off the Left side of the scale. There are people who wouldn't pause to cattlecar every Freeper to the rice fields if they could get away with it, and Liu is one of them.
There are a (very) few conservatives at Berkeley Law, such as John Yoo and Philip E. Johnson. But they are powerless tokens, by and large — jewels that allow the school to say it has some conservatives to go along with its 95%+ liberals.
Here are some of his words.....
When Mr. Liu was opposing John Roberts, he wrote for Bloomberg that “’free enterprise,’ ‘private ownership of property,’ and ‘limited government’ . . . are code words for an ideological agenda hostile to environmental, workplace, and consumer protections.”
Goodwin Liu’s Precedents
WSJ — REVIEW & OUTLOOK
MAY 19, 2011
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