Second in a series
Re “Newest State Court Nominee Is the Wrong Color, Lawyer Charges”
[img]2889|right|Leondra Kruger||no_popup[/img]The downtown lawyer who complained yesterday that Gov. Brown’s third and latest appointment to the state Supreme Court, Leondra Kruger, 38 years old, appears too green to qualify, acknowledges that she may, however, be the strongest of the questionable trio.
The attorney left no doubt that he believes ethnicity was perhaps the most influential factor in the selection of each.
“Unlike the chief justice (Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye), who paid her dues – she came from the California Court of Appeal – the three the governor has picked have not. None has been a judge before,” which the lawyer considers disappointing if not shocking. “They were academics.”
Now it was time to adjust the portrait of last week’s nominee.
“I have heard nothing but good things about Kruger,” the middle-aged attorney said. “She at least has been in the solicitor general’s office in D.C., and has argued before the court many times.
“From my perspective, this is the sort of woman who would qualify for the Court of Appeals. Some (appointees) go straight, and they miss the trial court, which I don’t like very much. Theoretically, if they are that good, they go right to the Court of Appeal.
“In California, as people know, we have three levels, Superior Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.”
(To be continued)
