{"id":72951,"date":"2022-01-27T02:57:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/justice-leondra-kruger-among-possible-supreme-court-nominees\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T02:57:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:27:01","slug":"justice-leondra-kruger-among-possible-supreme-court-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/justice-leondra-kruger-among-possible-supreme-court-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Leondra Kruger Among Possible Supreme Court Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Justice Leondra R. Kluger of the California Supreme Court has many of the qualifications typical of nominees for vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Like four of the current justices, she graduated from Yale Law School. Like six of the justices, she served as a law clerk on the Supreme Court, for former Justice John Paul Stevens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">And she is well known at the court, having served as an acting deputy solicitor general in the Obama administration, presenting 12 arguments on behalf of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">She is anomalous in at least one way, in that she serves on a state court. Eight of the current justices served on federal appeals courts before being named to the Supreme Court. The ninth, Justice Elena Kagan, had no prior judicial service, though she had been dean of Harvard Law School and solicitor general.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The last justice elevated directly from a state court was Justice Sandra Day O\u2019Connor, in 1981.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Justice Kruger is 45, which is on the younger side for a Supreme Court nominee. With one exception \u2014 Justice Clarence Thomas, who was 43 \u2014 all of the current justices were older when they were nominated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Justice Kruger grew up in the Los Angeles area, the daughter of two doctors. She went to high school in Pasadena before attending Harvard. After law school, where she was the first Black woman to serve as editor in chief of The Yale Law Journal, she worked at prominent law firms and in the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">As acting deputy solicitor general, she argued for a narrow interpretation of the \u201cministerial exception\u201d to employment discrimination laws, saying that the court\u2019s analysis should be essentially the same whether the employer accused of discrimination was a private business or a church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The Supreme Court unanimously rejected her position. \u201cWe cannot accept the remarkable view that the religion clauses have nothing to say about a religious organization\u2019s freedom to select its own ministers,\u201d Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">In 2014, Gov. Jerry Brown of California, a Democrat, named Justice Kruger to the State Supreme Court. Legal analysts have called her cautious and deliberate, a characterization she has embraced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cMy approach reflects the fact that we operate in a system of precedent,\u201d Justice Kruger <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-kruger-court-20180531-story.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told The Los Angeles Times<\/a> in 2018. \u201cI aim to perform my job in a way that enhances the predictability and stability of the law and public confidence and trust in the work of the courts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Leondra R. Kluger of the California Supreme Court has many of the qualifications typical of nominees for vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court. Like four of the current justices, she graduated from Yale Law School. Like six of the justices, she served as a law clerk on the Supreme Court, for former Justice John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":72952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3266],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Justice-Leondra-Kruger-Among-Possible-Supreme-Court-Nominees.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}