Senate Stops Nomination of Goodwin Liu to 9th Circuit Court

Senate Stops Nomination of [Radical Berkeley-ite] Goodwin Liu to 9th Circuit Court

Barack Obama just LOVES these elitist, Marxist, mumbo-jumbos from Berkeley, but this one’s headed back to the land of fruits, nuts and berries where he belongs. DLTDHYOTA.


Senate GOP Marks a First – Blocking an Obama Judicial Nominee
Democrats needed 60 votes to move the nomination forward to final passage. Senate Republicans on Thursday toppled the nomination, 52-43, of controversial University of California-Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu, nominee for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a first in President Barack Obama’s presidency.

In the end, only one Republican voted for the nominee, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Nebraska’s Ben Nelson was the lone Democrat to oppose Liu. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, chose to vote “present,” a sign of his long-time opposition to judicial nominee filibusters. Democrats needed 60 votes to move the nomination to final passage.

GOP Leader Mitch McConnell said the nominee’s writings “reveal a left-wing ideologue who views the role of a judge not as that of an impartial arbiter, but as someone who views the bench as a position of power.” And though the Kentucky senator said he has “nothing against (Liu) personally, “Earning a lifetime appointment isn’t a right, nor is it a popularity contest.”

May Liu never raise his viperhead again, but of course he probably will. Here is background. Let us never forget who he is, what he said and why he can never be a judge.

Personally, I credit the good digging of Morgen at Verum Serum for finding the evidence that dogged Liu in the process.

Let him “spike the ball” today. Job well done!

Michelle Malkin also did yeoman’s duty.

Here is the archive of Ed Whelan: Ethics and Public Policy Institute:

In an essay on National Review Online — “Unsound and Unfit” — and in an extensive series of blog posts on National Review Online’s Bench Memos blog, EPPC President Ed Whelan has exposed the radical record of Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu, President Obama’s controversial nominee to a seat on the federal court of appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Immediately below is an index to a selective inventory of Mr. Whelan’s blog posts, followed by the full text of the “Unsound and Unfit” essay and of the selective inventory of blog posts:
Ninth Circuit Nominee Goodwin Liu on Constitutional Welfare Rights — Part 1
Goodwin Liu on Constitutional Welfare Rights — Part 2
Goodwin Liu on a Federal Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage
Goodwin Liu’s Keeping Faith with the Constitution — Part 1
Goodwin Liu’s Keeping Faith with the Constitution — Part 2
Goodwin Liu’s Cheap Attack on the Roberts Nomination
Goodwin Liu on School Choice in Support of Racial Quotas
Goodwin Liu on Racial Quotas Forever
Goodwin Liu on Reparations for Slavery
Confused Amar/Starr Letter in Support of Goodwin Liu
Yet Another Striking Omission by Goodwin Liu — Part 1
Yet Another Striking Omission by Goodwin Liu — Part 2
Why Goodwin Liu’s Omissions Matter
Goodwin Liu on Using Foreign Law to Redefine the Constitution
Simply Liu-dicrous Testimony — Part 1
Simply Liu-dicrous Testimony — Part 2
Simply Liu-dicrous Testimony — Part 3
Simply Liu-dicrous Testimony — Part 4
Liu-dicrous Responses to Written Questions — Part 1
Liu-dicrous Responses to Written Questions — Part 2
Liu-dicrous Responses to Written Questions — Part 3
Liu-dicrous Responses to Written Questions — Part 4
On Goodwin Liu and Same-Sex Marriage
More Liu-dicrous Testimony — Part 1
More Liu-dicrous Testimony — Part 2
Richard Painter’s Deceptive Portrayal of Goodwin Liu — Part 1
Richard Painter’s Deceptive Portrayal of Goodwin Liu — Part 2
Richard Painter’s Deceptive Portrayal of Goodwin Liu — Part 3
Miguel Estrada on Goodwin Liu’s Contemptible Mud-Flinging
Clint Bolick: Richard Painter Is “Off-Base”