Judges and Judiciary
Sep. 21, 2010
Review Judge Chen's Record When Judging His Nomination
The political blockage of U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward Chen’s nomination to the U.S. District Court is a scandal when considering his judicial experience, by Rory K. Little of U.C. Hastings College of the Law.
Rory K. Little
Joseph W. Cotchett Jr. Professor of Law
UC Hastings College of the Law
Email: littler@uchastings.edu
Rory clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court and also served as an associate deputy attorney general in 1996-97
Explaining last summer why they would vote against Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, Senators Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, and Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, criticized her lack of judicial experience and her "paper-thin paper trail." The irony of this critique loses all humor when we examine the U.S. District Court nomination of U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward Chen - who has nine years of federal judicial experience and hundreds of written opinions o...
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