Cheryl Miller in The Recorder (“Advocates for Attorney General Candidates Make Pleas to Governor”) writes, “Lawyers and interest groups are ratcheting up the public pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom to pick a favored candidate to replace Attorney General Xavier Becerra, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.” She notes recent columns promoting Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu.
The most recent Liu supporter is Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who wrote in the Sacramento Bee, “At a time when Newsom is facing serious challenges, appointing a person of Justice Liu’s integrity and experience would make great political sense and would be of enormous benefit to California.” Among other things, Chemerinsky noted that Liu’s “separate opinions in key cases have helped motivate the enactment of several important pieces of legislation, including Assembly Bill 3070 (addressing racial discrimination in jury selection), Senate Bill 1437 (reforming accomplice liability for murder), SB 395 (expanding Miranda rights for juveniles) and SB 1058 (expanding post-conviction relief based on false evidence at trial).” (See here, here, here, and here.)
Malcolm Maclachlan in the Daily Journal (“Newsom is pressured to appoint a woman or minority as AG”) reports, “The lobbying around Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attorney general pick has begun in earnest.” He says that “[s]ome in organized labor suggested California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin H. Liu.”
Related:
“Why Goodwin Liu Should Be California’s Next Attorney General”
Justice Liu mentioned as possible California Attorney General appointee
