Politics Blog
By Bob Egelko
June 23, 2015 – 4:39 PM
Like his last state Supreme Court appointee, one of Gov. Jerry Brown’s latest appellate court nominees is a young Obama administration lawyer with no judicial experience. The current pick, Lamar Baker, is stirring up a certain amount of controversy.
Brown named Baker, 37, to one of three vacancies on the Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles last month. Baker, a Bay Area native and like Brown a Yale Law School graduate, practiced law in Southern California from 2002 to 2005, then spent five years as a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles before joining the Obama administration. He moved up the ranks to become chief of staff in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy, then joined the White House counsel’s office in 2013 and has served as special assistant and associate counsel to the president for the last year.
Baker might be an unusual choice for other governors but not for Brown, whose three current state Supreme Court appointees had never previously served as judges. The most recent, Justice Leondra Kruger, was a 38-year-old attorney in Obama’s Justice Department with a sparkling reputation but no judicial record before Brown swore her into office in January.
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Anonymous on November 26th, 2014 1:12 am
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>>> “She (LAMAR W. BAKER) BARELY meets the constitutional qualifications…”
Anonymous on February 15th, 2014 11:11 pm
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[RED]Anonymous on September 28th, 2012 9:18 pm
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The problems we find ourselves in today are on account of a LACK OF VETTING officials and our allowance of letting all these city and county (AND JUDICIAL) positions become partisan.
We need to stop electing ( AND APPOINTING) people based on whether they
wear a FLAG lapel pen and wave a FLAG and start looking at peoples
background, patterns, and record.
(>>> and start looking at peoples background, patterns, and record.)
P.S.
“If a tree (RED) falls (SPEAKS) in a forest (BLOG) and no one is around (PHYSICALLY) to hear it, does it (RED) make a sound (SENSE)?”
From Wikipedia:
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
Can something exist without being perceived? — e.g. “is sound only sound if a person hears it?”
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Can we assume the unobserved world functions the same as the observed world? — e.g., “does observation affect outcome?”
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What is the difference between what something is, and how it appears? — e.g., “sound is the variation of *pressure* that propagates through matter as a wave”
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Hui-neng’s Flag
“Two monks were arguing about the temple flag waving in the wind.
One said, “The flag moves.”
The other said, “The wind moves.”
They argued back and forth but could not agree.
The Sixth Ancestor said, “Gentlemen!
It is not the wind that moves; it is not the flag that moves; it is your mind that moves.”
The two monks were struck with awe.”
– The Mumonkan Case 29, translation by Robert Aitken