UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu was sworn in to the Supreme Court of California today at a ceremony on the State Capitol, after having been confirmed at a hearing yesterday.
Liu received unanimous confirmation from a three-member panel at a hearing in San Francisco yesterday in front of the Commission on Judicial Appointments, where colleagues from the UC Berkeley School of Law, as well as members of the business and legal community, spoke about his dedication to the legal profession, his loyalty to his students, his attention to details and his belief in justice for everyone.
Liu had been previously nominated to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by President Barack Obama in February 2010 but was ultimately not confirmed. Republicans filibustered the appointment — citing concerns about his liberal read of the Constitution and left-leaning opinions on issues such as gay marriage and abortion — until he withdrew as a candidate.
But despite the controversy surrounding his past nomination, no one at the state hearing testified against him, and his appointment to the California Supreme Court — making him the fourth Asian American to currently sit on the court — gives the court its first Asian American majority.
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Sadly, Brown decided not to appoint a moderate to the court and selected a non-Californian who has ZERO experience in Californian law.
Every other Supreme Court justice was born in California with the exception of Kennard who was born in Indonesia, however she moved to California for college and stayed here since.
Liu is also far too young and inexperienced to provide any meaningful opinions to the Court, not to mention has a reputation as being very liberal.
Bad choice Brown, VERY bad choice.
“Judge Alito’s record envisions an America where police may shoot and kill an unarmed boy to stop him from running away with a stolen purse … where a black man may be sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man.”
That’s a direct quote from Goodwin Liu during the Alito confirmation hearings. He sounds like a hypercharged political hack, not the sort of person that we want on the CA Supreme Court.
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/03/nation/na-alito3
Alito
wrote that he saw no constitutional problem with a police officer
shooting and killing an unarmed teenager who was fleeing after a $10
home burglary.
“I
think the shooting [in this case] can be justified as reasonable,”
Alito wrote in a 1984 memo to Justice Department officials.
Because
the officer could not know for sure why a suspect was fleeing, the
courts should not set a rule forbidding the use of deadly force, he
said.
“I do not think the Constitution provides an answer to the officer’s dilemma,” Alito advised.
A
year later, however, the Supreme Court used the same case to set a firm
national rule against the routine use of “deadly force” against fleeing
suspects who pose no danger.
Sorry Cap’n but it is you that is the hack.
You conveniently left out the reason that individual was shot – and it wasn’t over a “$10 burglary”. Once again, lefties like you distort and omit critical pieces of information to make it sound like people you don’t like advocate summary execution of petty criminals. Your moral cowardice and intellectual dishonesty have been noted…