{"id":13718,"date":"2011-07-26T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-26T19:19:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:19:09","slug":"brown-nominates-goodwin-liu-to-replace-carlos-moreno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/26\/brown-nominates-goodwin-liu-to-replace-carlos-moreno\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Nominates Goodwin Liu to Replace Carlos Moreno"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jorde<\/a>Liu will have big shoes to fill<\/i><\/p>\n

by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n

The news of Carlos Moreno’s retirement earlier this year<\/a> was not entirely surprising, yet it did leave a big hole on the California Supreme Court.  Moreno was the only Justice appointed by a Democrat, and while the Court was fairly moderate on social issues (see marriage equality 1 and 2), it often tilted to the Right on economic issues.<\/p>\n

Moreno was a voice that sought fairness and a standard of law that imposed rights and duties on corporations just as it did on ordinary citizens.  His strength of character and perseverance were essential to building a reasonable consensus on the court.  Jerry had quite the shoes to fill when Moreno announced his retirement.<\/p>\n

There was a big push for a Latino, and while that goal was not achieved, the appointment of Goodwin Liu will fill many other goals for the Court.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.(LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Liu will be a strong voice for ordinary Californians on the Court. While hardly a radical leftist, he does have a sincere respect for civil rights.  While President Obama was not willing to spend the “political capital” to get him on the federal appellate bench, he will be allowed a fairly simple confirmation here.  He may face some pressure when he faces a retention vote in the general election, but unless something drastically changes between now and then, nothing will really come of it.<\/p>\n

Liu’s appointment gives the Court a strong representation in the Asian community.  However, the Court will have no Latinos or African-Americans, something the Governor would be wise to rectify in the next appointment process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Jorde<\/a>Liu will have big shoes to fill<\/i><\/p>\n

by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n

The news of Carlos Moreno’s retirement earlier this year<\/a> was not entirely surprising, yet it did leave a big hole on the California Supreme Court.  Moreno was the only Justice appointed by a Democrat, and while the Court was fairly moderate on social issues (see marriage equality 1 and 2), it often tilted to the Right on economic issues.<\/p>\n

Moreno was a voice that sought fairness and a standard of law that imposed rights and duties on corporations just as it did on ordinary citizens.  His strength of character and perseverance were essential to building a reasonable consensus on the court.  Jerry had quite the shoes to fill when Moreno announced his retirement.<\/p>\n

There was a big push for a Latino, and while that goal was not achieved, the appointment of Goodwin Liu will fill many other goals for the Court.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.(LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Liu will be a strong voice for ordinary Californians on the Court. While hardly a radical leftist, he does have a sincere respect for civil rights.  While President Obama was not willing to spend the “political capital” to get him on the federal appellate bench, he will be allowed a fairly simple confirmation here.  He may face some pressure when he faces a retention vote in the general election, but unless something drastically changes between now and then, nothing will really come of it.<\/p>\n

Liu’s appointment gives the Court a strong representation in the Asian community.  However, the Court will have no Latinos or African-Americans, something the Governor would be wise to rectify in the next appointment process.<\/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":[1077,9453],"class_list":["post-13718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1077","tag-9453"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3zg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718","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=13718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}