UC Berkeley prof. sworn in to Calif. Supreme Court (on deck for SCOTUS)

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Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
Former Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law
Former Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Former Chairman of the board of the American Constitution Society, whose mission statement opposes the "activist conservative legal movement."
40 Years Old.


SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Jerry Brown swore in University of California, Berkeley, law professor Goodwin Liu to the California Supreme Court on Thursday, just three months after Liu withdrew from consideration for a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Liu, whose parents came to the U.S. from Taiwan, replaces the court's only Latino, Carlos Moreno, who retired in February. Latinos make up the state's largest racial minority.

With Liu's appointment, four of the state's seven justices are of full or partial Asian descent, while three are white.

Brown said that shows the progress California has made since the days of anti-Asian and Chinese laws and attempts to drive out Native Americans and blacks in the 19th century.

"That is a real milestone, and maybe our forebears, wherever they are, will turn over in their respective graves but enjoy the progress that we've made," Brown said.

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