Goodwin Liu Is A Radical From The Far Left

Barack Obama lost his first vote on a judicial nominee last Thursday.  Senate Republicans derailed the nomination of liberal professor Goodwin Liu who leveled acerbic attacks against two conservative Supreme Court nominees who are both now justices.

The Democrats fell short of the 60 votes they need to end a filibuster and give Goodwin Liu an up-or-down vote on his nomination to the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Liu, a 40-year-old legal scholar at the University of California's Berkeley law school, could someday be a dream Supreme Court nominee for the far left.  Liu believes that food stamps, housing, medical care, etc. are Constitutional rights.

Republicans have made Liu their prime example of a judicial nominee who, in their view, has been so unabashedly liberal in his writings and statements that he does not deserve an up-or-down vote.

The politics were reversed in 1987, when Democrats defeated Republican Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork by citing his conservative writings. Liberals said Bork was a conservative extremist, just as conservatives now say Liu is a liberal extremist. Bork's nomination was defeated in an up-or-down vote 58-42.

"The nomination of Mr. Goodwin Liu does rise to a level of extraordinary circumstances and therefore McCain will seek to filibuster the nomination," John McCain's office said in a statement Wednesday.

Lindsey Graham said: "His outrageous attack on Judge Alito convinced me that Goodwin Liu is an ideologue. Goodwin Liu should run for elected office, not serve as a judge. Ideologues have their place, just not on the bench."

America needs no more radical left judges legislated from the bench.  It was about time the republicans stood up for a free America.  We salute them for this effort.

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