Obama nominates Berkeley prof to appeals court

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Source: Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle

(02-24) 14:15 PST BERKELEY --

A UC Berkeley constitutional law professor and civil rights advocate was nominated Wednesday by President Obama to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
Goodwin Liu, 39, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, learned English in kindergarten and later became an honors graduate at Stanford and a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught at Berkeley since 2003 and was named associate dean of the law school in 2008.

He also worked as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and as a special assistant to the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.

Liu is one of two Asian Americans nominated by Obama to the federal appeals courts, which now have no active Asian American judges. The Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco, handles federal cases from California and eight other Western states and has three vacancies among its 29 authorized judgeships.

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[maxsolomon]

1. cue the "marin county hot tubbers" faux outrage...

if it's berkeley, it has to be unamurkin.

:sarcasm:

[Cha]

2. Kick

[pleah]

3. K&R

[Union Yes]

4. Nice pick Mr Pres! knr nt.

[4lbs]

5. A civil rights advocate on the US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

The Appeals Court hears 10x as many cases as the USSC, so he'll be of great influence there.

:D


Oh, and being Taiwanese, some idiot freeper will make a public comment that he's essentially Chinese, and therefore a Communist, and we don't need no stinkin' Commies on our courts!111!!!1111!!

Just wait...

[lobodons]

6. Possible 4th SCOTUS nominee for Obama?

I'd love to see him as Obama's 4th SCOTUS pick during his second term!!!

[DFW]

7. The Republicans will probably delay this one for about 6 years, if they stick to SOP

They screamed bloody murder when Bush Lite nominated unquilified right wing hacks, but when a qualified progressive gets named, they scream "LIBBRUL!!!!" as if it meant "killer and dismemberer of young children," and hold the nomination until the next century if they can get away with it.

[SlingBlade]

8. The word, Crumb's, come to mind for some reason

I wonder why ?