
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Senior Circuit Judge Alfred Theodore Goodwin, looking back at age 88 on a long, sometimes contentious career on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, doesn't take himself very seriously.
"Now I'm a certified geezer," said the 1971 President Richard Nixon circuit court nominee who is best known for having concluded in 2002 that the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is an u... (continued)