Third in a series
Re “Kruger May Be a Poor Choice, but Best of a Low-wattage Trio”
[img]2889|right|Leondra Kruger||no_popup[/img]Sweeping his overall opinion into a single clutch, the attorney from a prestigious downtown firm who has been critical of the woman Gov. Brown nominated last week for the state Supreme Court, swung hard one more time.
“As far as I am concerned, none of the governor’s three nominees should be on the Supreme Court,” he told this newspaper while declining to be identified.
“If he wants to fast-track them, let all three go to the Court of Appeals first for at least two years, although I would like for it to be longer. See what can be done. Get a track record here.”
When the downtown Daily Journal last week reported that 38-year-old Leondra Kruger, from the U.S. Dept. of Justice, was Mr. Brown’s third selectee, they speculated on reasons. She has spent virtually her entire career in Washington, has not practiced law since 2009, and is decidedly not a popular choice in the law community.
Along with the inexperienced Ms. Kruger, a Pasadena native, the governor selected intensely liberal and controversial Goodwin Liu in 2011 and Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, a Stanford Law School professor, who will not be seated until next month.
Said the Journal of the Brown nominees: “They graduated from Brown’s alma mater – Yale Law School – clerked for prestigious federal judges, are extraordinarily young, minorities, worked for the Obama administration and lacked judicial experience.”
(To be continued)
