GOP takes a swing at Cal prof judicial nominee
By Josh Richman
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 7:39 am in Obama presidency.
The Republican National Committee today put out its first major partisan hit piece on University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall Law School Associate Dean and Professor Goodwin Liu, whom President Barack Obama nominated last month to a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
As I’d reported on the blog and in print, the GOP doesn’t care for Liu’s liberal credentials – he chairs the progressive American Constitution Society’s board of directors; he’s a former member of the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and Chinese for Affirmative Action; and he served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition’s education policy and agency review teams – or for his belief that judges should interpret the Constitution not according to “how its general principles would have been applied in 1789 or 1868, but rather how those principles should be applied today in order to preserve their power and meaning in light of the concerns, conditions, and evolving norms of our society.”
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March 24th, 2010 at 8:14 am
I’m against this nominee. The whim of the moment should not trump the will of the people.
March 24th, 2010 at 11:42 am
>>>Whim of moment should not trump will of people<<<
And here I thought rule of law is what guides judges. Silly me.
I found this article interesting but one-sided.
http://townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2010/03/24/the_world_according_to_goodwin_liu&Comments=true
March 25th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Mr. Liu does need closer examination, but not solely on the basis of what Townhall.com reports (whether we agree or not). Per Mr. Liu’s profile at UC Berkeley website he graduated in 1998, so that’s only 12 years of job experience. He’s been on faculty at UCB since 2003, so that’s only 7 years of non-academic work. Geez, let him do some work at the County DA’s office or as a public defender. I want to know that he’s got adequate courtroom experience before he works at a high judicial post. Why can’t the administration find someone with at least 20 years experience that’s dealt with a wide variety of issues.
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