Sacramento, California. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has chosen Tani Cantil-Sakauye, a Filipino-American. She currently serves on California\u2019s Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento. If approved she would succeed Chief Justice Ronald George, who\u2019s announced he\u2019ll retire early next year. Arthur Scotland is the Presiding Justice of the Third District Court of Appeal. He says the job is much more than handling cases as part of the seven judge panel.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have a responsibility of dealing with the Governor and the legislature on budget matters. You\u2019re looking at ways you can improve the quality of the judiciary, access issues, other things of that nature that are coming up on a daily basis. So not only are you dealing with your cases but you\u2019re dealing with the bigger policy issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
If approved, Cantil-Sakauye would be the first Asian American to head the state Supreme Court. The 50-year-old jurist is a Republican.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if you look at her opinions you\u2019ll see a moderate jurist in the mainstream, judicial mainstream at work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kevin Johnson is Dean of the U.C. Davis School of Law, Cantil-Sakauye\u2019s alma mater. He says he wouldn\u2019t expect a big ideological shift on the court.
\n\u201cHer most recent opinion involved a criminal case, involving sentencing of a convicted murderer. It reflected to me somebody who looks very closely at the law, at the statute, at California Supreme Court precedent. It didn\u2019t strike me the work of an ideologue in any sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cantil-Sakauye\u2019s parents were farm workers and were originally migrants from the Philippines. Her supporters say they placed great emphasis on higher education. ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sacramento, California. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has chosen Tani Cantil-Sakauye, a Filipino-American. She currently serves on California\u2019s Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento. If approved she would succeed Chief Justice Ronald George, who\u2019s announced he\u2019ll retire early next year. Arthur Scotland is the Presiding Justice of the Third District Court of Appeal. He says the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}