Just last week, a journalist speculated that Governor Gavin Newsom might pick Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu to replace Xavier Becerra as California’s Attorney General if Becerra is confirmed as President-elect Joe Biden’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. Today, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin suggests that Liu could join Becerra in Biden’s cabinet as United States Attorney General.
After discussing a number of other possible picks to head the Justice Department, Rubin writes:
Another category of potential candidates could come from any number of fine Asian American judges around the country. On Thursday, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus lobbied the Biden-Harris team to name an Asian American to a spot with a secretary title, with an eye toward Julie Su, California’s secretary of labor and workforce development, to be labor secretary. But how much more groundbreaking would be the first Asian American attorney general? Respected progressives and jurists such as Goodwin Liu (currently on the California Supreme Court), Jacqueline Nguyen (9th Circuit Court of Appeals) or Sri Srinivasan (D.C. Circuit) might be considered.
Those three judges have something in common: All were potential Supreme Court picks for President Barack Obama. [See here.]
