Comments on: Gov. Brown thinks long with young CA high-court picks https://calwatchdog.com/2014/11/28/gov-brown-thinks-long-with-young-ca-high-court-picks/ Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:42:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: T Mind of Ted Your God https://calwatchdog.com/2014/11/28/gov-brown-thinks-long-with-young-ca-high-court-picks/#comment-104269 Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:42:27 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=70852#comment-104269 LOL
The confirmation process is non existent in state court?

What do you propose?

The legislature confirm?

The same legislature that you elected and that approves gov worker compensation?

LMAO—- you remain lost in a foggy dream….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

]]> By: Rex the Wonder Dog! https://calwatchdog.com/2014/11/28/gov-brown-thinks-long-with-young-ca-high-court-picks/#comment-103624 Sat, 29 Nov 2014 01:21:25 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=70852#comment-103624 The diversity angle is notable. But it’s not nearly as important in the long term as the fact that Kruger, Liu and Cuéllar are all very much classic liberal activists — legal thinkers who believe the Constitution is a living document Not true. The left and right wingnuts always try to paint a picture that is unfocused and many time incorrect. Lui has NEVER said he thinks the Constitution is a living document, that is a term painted by someone with an agenda. I have also never heard Krueger make this comment. The fact is the Ronald George’s shape the rulings based on their right wing philosophy, and 99% of the time that means they game and manipulate the system in favor of government of Big Business.

and who see the courts as having a responsibility not just to interpret the law but to fight for social justice.
The law should be applied equally to everyone, and that does not mean “social justice”. Look at Roberts, he claimed at his confirmation hearing that he was not going to start rewriting the law and changing things, he said he was an “umpire calling balls and strikes”, well the first thing Roberts did was redo decades of stare decisis case law in numerous cases, the most damaging being Citizens united and Kelo, not to mention he changed the pleading standard in all civil rights cases that favored government so much that most civil rights cases brought in federal court are not being dismissed under Roberts “plausibility” standard that tossed out 8 decades of stare decisis case law…of course he could never get away with this without Rubber Stamp Thomas and Scalia. And now Alito, who replaced O’Connor (O’Connor would be very unlikely to rubber stamp many of Roberts decisions).
In other words, the California Supreme Court is on the brink of being the state version of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Totally false. The 9th Circuit has as MANY right wingnits on it as it does left wingnuts- it is divided JUST AS exactly at 50/50 based on ideology. The problem with the 9th is that it is so large- they decide a third of all federal appeals- that a favorable ruling from it is nearly 100% dependent on which judges you get. If you’re the government you want the right wingnuts, if you’re a prisoner or the plaintiff in a civil rights case you want the left wingnuts. Th entire 9th Circuit is a hot mess of ideology that swings in extremes to both the left AND the right. In fact appointments to all Courts today, especially state courts where the confirmation process is basically nonexistent, are based on ideology, don’t ever think for a second the right and left are different in that respect.

I caught this interview by accident a few days ago on PBS (don’t usually watch PBS), and I had never, EVER, heard of Zephyr Teachout, but she destroys Roberts views on campaign finance and Citizens United (everyone knows who Larry Lessig is, but Teachout??). She knows her history inside out, blew e away, and the fact is $$$ from Big Business AND public unions have wrecked this nation, it is in a death spiral for everyone except the 1% and the public trough feeders….. and basically Teachout makes a bullet proof case for it IMO.

Good watch;
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-public-power-can-defeat-plutocrats/

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