Appeals court nominee Liu causes battle in Senate

[steven johnson]

Source: Washington Post

By Ben Pershing
Thursday, April 8, 2010

A battle is intensifying in the Senate over the appeals court nomination of Goodwin Liu, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley whom some Democrats consider a potential nominee one day to the Supreme Court.

Democrats vowed Wednesday to press ahead with plans for an April 16 Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A day earlier, the GOP demanded a delay and suggested that Liu's nomination might be in jeopardy because he had not provided enough information to the panel.

Activists on both the left and right view Liu's nomination as a practice run for the next Supreme Court vacancy, which could come as soon as this year if Justice John Paul Stevens retires.

Liu has been an opponent of the "originalist" view of the Constitution advocated by conservative scholars, arguing instead for a "progressive view" of the law that accounts for many factors beyond the original intent of the framers. He also earned the ire of the right by opposing the Supreme Court nominations of Samuel A. Alito Jr. and John G. Roberts Jr.

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[Turbineguy]

1. It doesn't matter who it will be.

It will be "THE WAR FOR THE SUPREME COURT!!!!!" Story at 11.

[dmr]

2. We've been expecting this.

I say let them act like the bullies they are - but we have to keep pushing.

I want the most common sense, intellectual liberals on that court!

[wilt the stilt]

3. Here's a man who has accomplished

much more than any of those twerps questioning him and that includes those two schmucks Alito and Roberts. The son of immigrants who couldn't didn't learn english until he was 5 and went on to a brilliant academic career(Stanford, Oxford and Yale). Someone who should be lauded by all because he is the american story and these yahoos question him. What a bunch of dicks.

[Hawaii Hiker]

4. President Obama would REALLY excite the base if

he'd skip the Appeals Court nomination & make Goodwin Liu the next Supreme Court appointment...

After Roberts & Ailito, (which in turn was why you had the Citizens United ruling) it's about time to have a real liberal justice on the high court....

[happygoluckytoyou]

5. IN A RELATED STORY sarah palin complains that too much of that courtstuff requires degrees and stuff

IN A SPEECH BEFORE 12 TEABAGGERS (counted 24 teeth and divided by 2) sarah palin insists that the courts would be a better place is perky titted girls such as herself could run them, rather than those stuffy old school nerd professory types (winky wink)

[No Elephants]

8. Katie Couric: Which Supreme Court case, other than Roe v. Wade, do you know of?

Sarah Palin: *crickets*

Okay, those weren't Katie's exact words, but they're close enough. And Sarah did respond. I can't quote her exactly, because her response was devoid of words, just a sound. Something like "hmmmm."

Sarah did, however, "know" that the U.S. Constitution defines marriage as between a man and woman.

:rofl:

Just as does the Bible.

:rofl:




Ahhh, you just gotta love her!

[No Elephants]

9. No reason he can't appoint Liu to the federal bench and then, when the time comes, to the SCOTUS.

Seems fine to me.

[defendandprotect]

6. This is simply more of the intimidation/power play which GOP has pulled to move

all the courts to the right --

And Democrats have too often helped them do it!

[Democat]

7. Democrats better not back down - we are the majority.

If Republicans don't like it, too bad. They got their activist supreme court justices when Bush was president, we can appoint anyone we want.