San Francisco Chronicle Politics Blog, August 31, 2011 by Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=96546
Before Liu joined the Berkeley faculty in 2003, Kay said, she called an old friend, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for whom Liu had clerked in 2000. Kay said Ginsburg told her that “his work on her dissent in Bush v. Gore had been ‘exemplary.’”… “She said he was one of the best law clerks she ever had,” Kay said. “She didn’t know if she could have managed to get through the struggle within the court over that case if he hadn’t been there to help lend a steady hand.”