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Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Hussein Obama's Supreme Court nominee, made the above comment in 2001 and backtracked as if she can put those words back into her mouth. She also said she would use "empathy" in her judicial decision making as she has in the past. Yet another judicial nominee seeks to impose the " empathy " standard on the courts.  

Two men nominated by President Barack Obama to be federal judges in the San Francisco-based Northern District of California have won the approval of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. The nominations of Richard Seeborg, 52, of Palo Alto, and Edward Chen, 56, of San Francisco, will now go to the full Senate for confirmation. The nominations were approved by the Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

I hope that the Senate will move expeditiously to confirm them.   -Dianne Feinstein

 

Upon listening to "America the Beautiful," President Obama's most recently confirmed District Court judge's first thought was not of spacious skies or amber waves of grain. The judge couldn't quite appreciate the beauty described in the song because of his cynicism towards America. "Sometimes I cannot help but feel that there…too many inequalities that prevent far too many Americans from enjoying the beauty extolled in that anthem," said Edward Chen at the Hastings Public Interest Graduation in 2005.

Sometimes I cannot help but feel that there…too many inequalities that prevent far too many Americans from enjoying the beauty extolled in that anthem   -Edward Chen

 

Not that it mattered, but the California branch of the National Organization of Women stepped up late to oppose the confirmation of the lawmaker-turned-appellate justice. San Francisco lawyer Philip Kay probably didn't mean to prove the prosecution's case with the, uh, trial tactics he used earlier this year. But prosecutors say that's precisely what he did.  

At Edward Chen's judicial confirmation hearing, Sen. Dianne Feinstein discusses (and dismisses) her initial concerns about Chen's ACLU background. The campaign for San Francisco's District 8 is gonna be full of lawyers. We interrupt them during their lunch, looking for signs of fear.  

The nation has saved 4.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, equal to the annual output of a power plant for a whole year, since a rate discount program was introduced in July last year by Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, ), chairman Edward Chen () said on Wednesday. The reduction in electricity consumption also reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 2.6 million tonnes or the equivalent to the volume of carbon dioxide absorbed by a 201,893-hectare wooded park, Chen said. This resulted in savings of about NT  

A batch of nominees for federal judgeships in California made it through their confirmation hearing today largely unscathed, possibly clearing a path for a dramatic increase in the number of Asian-Americans on the bench. Asian-Americans currently constitute less than 1 percent of the 876 judges on all federal courts, according to statistics compiled by Senate Democrats. Their ethnicity was a point of celebration for the nominees, as they and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee told stories of pa

never taught Dolly to sew because she did not want her daughter to have to stitch clothes for a living.   -Barbara Boxer

 

The Bay Area federal bench edged a bit closer Wednesday to adding two new federal judges as the Senate Judiciary Committee considered the first batch of local nominations by the Obama administration. During more than an hour of hearings, the committee members questioned the two Northern California nominees, San Jose U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Seeborg and San Francisco U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward Chen. President Barack Obama this past summer nominated Chen and Seeborg to lifetime federal judgeships  

In August, President Obama nominated Federal Magistrate Judge Edward Chen and Los Angeles lawyer Dolly Gee to the United States District Court bench in California. Their nominations follow the nomination of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Nguyen for the position of United States District Judge.  

The average cost for photovoltaic (PV) power generation in Taiwan is NT$16 (US$0.49) per kilowatt-hour (kwh) in the northern region, NT$12/kwh in the central region and NT$10/kwh in the southern region, all of which are much higher than the NT$2.3/kwh for fossil-fuel power, according to Edward Chen, chairman of the state-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower). Taipower's fossil-fuel power generation emitted carbon dioxide at an average of 0.575kg/kwh in 2008, higher than the 0.4kg/kwh in Japan and South Kor