{"id":12388,"date":"2010-08-25T23:20:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T23:20:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-26T02:20:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T02:20:54","slug":"chief-justice-nominee-tani-cantilsakauye-confirmed-by-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/25\/chief-justice-nominee-tani-cantilsakauye-confirmed-by-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Justice Nominee Tani Cantil-Sakauye Confirmed by Commission on Judicial Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/?action=view&#038;current=sakauye.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/sakauye.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=right alt=\"Tani Cantil-Sakauye\"><\/a>The Governor&#8217;s pick to be the next Chief Justice, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/judge-confirmed-for-states-top.html\">confirmed by the commission on judicial appointments today<\/a>. &nbsp;The commission consists of three persons: &nbsp; Chief Justice Ron George, Attorney General Jerry Brown, and Senior Appellate Justice Joan Dempsey Klein. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this being California, that is hardly the end of it. &nbsp;She will next go before the voters in a Yes\/No referendum on the November ballot. &nbsp;If elected, she will serve a 12 year term. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cantil-Sakauye would be the first Asian Chief Justice, as well as the first Filipina on the court. &nbsp;As a jurist, she is <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2010-07-22\/news\/21992931_1_seven-member-state-supreme-court-commission-on-judicial-appointments-network-magazine\">considered to be something of a moderate<\/a>, but as far as the larger social issues of the day, we will have to wait and see where she stands.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: My mistake on the approving body. It was the commission on judicial appointments, not the senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/?action=view&#038;current=sakauye.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/sakauye.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=right alt=\"Tani Cantil-Sakauye\"><\/a>The Governor&#8217;s pick to be the next Chief Justice, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/judge-confirmed-for-states-top.html\">confirmed by the commission on judicial appointments today<\/a>. &nbsp;The commission consists of three persons: &nbsp; Chief Justice Ron George, Attorney General Jerry Brown, and Senior Appellate Justice Joan Dempsey Klein. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this being California, that is hardly the end of it. &nbsp;She will next go before the voters in a Yes\/No referendum on the November ballot. &nbsp;If elected, she will serve a 12 year term. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cantil-Sakauye would be the first Asian Chief Justice, as well as the first Filipina on the court. &nbsp;As a jurist, she is <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2010-07-22\/news\/21992931_1_seven-member-state-supreme-court-commission-on-judicial-appointments-network-magazine\">considered to be something of a moderate<\/a>, but as far as the larger social issues of the day, we will have to wait and see where she stands.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: My mistake on the approving body. It was the commission on judicial appointments, not the senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[2987,9227],"class_list":["post-12388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-2987","tag-9227"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3dO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}