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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Why does Rose Bird come to mind?
So it's the Chicom spymaster, Liu?
Radical whitey-hater.
Read his own words.
Will Liu defend Wu?
There are conservatives at Berkeley? Highly doubtful.
Just another nail in the coffin of the Socialist Republic of California.....
Conservatives. At Berkeley. When does lying cross over into delusion?
“but his colleagues at Berkeley, including conservatives,”
Conservatives at Berkeley???? Now there’s a laugher if I’ve ever seen one.
LOL, the California Supreme Court is the perfect place for this communist piece of sh!+.
As long as he stays away from America, I’m happy as a clam.
LOL! I'm skeptical too.
So is Obama.
Conservatives at Berkeley?......
snowbirds in hell?.....
“strongly supportive of civil rights.”
That would be “anyone but white”.
Another reason to leave California when I retire.
Gee, what a nice consolation prize.
Since he couldn’t get confirmed to be a federal judge, let’s make him a California Supreme Court justice instead.
Agreed...At least Republicans had the spine to block this turkey from the 9th Circus.
Both big Liberals who had never been a judge before.
History does repeat. California is getting exactly what it voted for.
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