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The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...
Goodwin Hon Liu (Chinese: 劉弘威; pinyin: Liú Hóngwēi; born October 19, 1970) [2] is an American jurist who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California since 2011. Before his appointment by Governor Jerry Brown, he was a professor of law and associate dean at the University of California, Berkeley. [3]
As there was a Supreme Court vacancy at the time of the 2016 presidential campaign, advisors to then-candidate Donald Trump developed, and Trump made public, two lists of potential Supreme Court nominees. [8] [9] Ruth Bader Ginsburg officially accepting the nomination as associate justice from President Bill Clinton on June 14, 1993
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Leondra Kruger* (born 1976) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court [23] [21] [22] Goodwin Liu (born 1970) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court [2] Maite Oronoz Rodríguez (born 1976) – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico [2]
Governor Pete Wilson appointed George as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court on July 29, 1991, and he was sworn in on September 3. [1] California voters elected him to a full twelve-year term on November 8, 1994. Wilson appointed George as the 27th Chief Justice of California on March 28, 1996. [1]
California's Supreme Court justices are selected by the governor to serve 12-year terms but must be confirmed by a state judicial commission and then by voters.
In 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown nominated Kruger to a seat on the Supreme Court of California. She was confirmed, and was sworn in on January 5, 2015. Kruger was considered a potential nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States, following the announcement of Justice Stephen Breyer's intention to retire in 2022. [2] [3]