Berkeley Law Professor, Denied a Federal Judgeship, Will Join California’s Highest Court

August 31, 2011, 10:56 pm

Goodwin Liu, the Berkeley law professor whose nomination to a federal court of appeals was blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate, is about to become a justice of the California Supreme Court instead. The state Commission on Judicial Appointments endorsed his nomination on Wednesday, and Gov. Jerry Brown is scheduled to swear him into office on Thursday, according to news reports. Mr. Liu joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law in 2003. He has won awards for his teaching and his scholarship, which includes writings on education law and policy, and he has served as a special adviser to the U.S. deputy secretary of education.

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http://arthuride.wordpress.com/ Dr. Arthur Frederick Ide

The State of California has made an excellent choice for its Supreme Court. This will enhance the juridical process, and the USA is all the more bankrupt for not appointing Goodwin Liu to a federal judgeship–as there are few individual with his depth and breath of the knowledge of law. California is far more advanced than the rest of the USA that is being cannibalized by the Tea Party terrorists, NAR and their henchmen of evangelical extremists and organized hate groups. Congradulations to the State of California.
rmelton5

Yes, the only negative of this is that Berkeley loses such an excellent professor and mentor to many lawyers-in-training.
mjchang

+1, also one of the smartest individuals I know. Thank goodness California isn’t opposed to appointing the best and brightest to oversee our courts.
softshellcrab

Thank God they kept this guy off the federal bench, where he could just do even more harm. California has already been gutted as a society (witness the election of Brown as Governor), so no real harm can be done there to what has already been destroyed. Thank God the Republicans kept this nut-case off the federal bench. Thank God.