Last week’s nomination of Goodwin Liu to California’s Supreme Court was quintessential Jerry Brown: Bold, provocative and unexpected. And not just because the 40-year-old law professor he chose is a revered liberal legal scholar.
Brown turned conventional wisdom on its head. Pressed to pick a Southern Californian Latino to replace Justice Carlos Moreno, Brown chose an Asian-American from the Bay Area who’s never served on the bench.
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