Obama’s Judicial Nominee Hides Leftwing History -(practiced law for only three years)

judicial watch ^ | April 6, 2010 | Judicial watch

[opentalk]

The ardently leftist California law school professor nominated by President Obama to become a federal appellate court judge suspiciously concealed more than 100 of his most controversial speeches, publications and other background materials from the U.S. Senate committee that screens judicial candidates.

Obama’s pick to fill a vacancy on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, UC Berkeley Professor Goodwin Liu, conveniently omitted a mountain of contentious material that could hurt his confirmation process. The records shed light on Liu’s leftist positions in areas such as “constitutional welfare rights,” affirmative action, judicial activism and immigration.

The 39-year-old scholar, who has practiced law for only three years, hid questionable speeches on affirmative action, his participation at events sponsored by the notoriously leftwing Center for Social Justice and the influential Latino advocacy group National Council of La Raza, among others, from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

This week the committee’s ranking member, Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions, said Liu’s nomination is in jeopardy after the “extraordinary omission of 117 Items from record.” At best, this nominee’s extraordinary disregard for the committee’s constitutional role demonstrates incompetence; at worst, it creates the impression that he knowingly attempted to hide his most controversial work from the committee, Session says.

The “glaring omissions” were reluctantly provided by Liu only after the committee discovered them independently and are detailed in a lengthy letter from Republican members to Chairman Patrick Leahy. Among them is Liu’s commencement speech to UC Berkeley Law, his participation in a panel entitled “What the 2008 Election Will Mean for the Supreme Court” and his participation in a presentation entitled “The Fate of Affirmative Action from the O’Connor Court to the Roberts Court.”

Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, has praised Liu as a “great American story” and claims he has “sterling credentials.” The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Liu will bring much-needed diversity to the federal bench, Leahy says, because there are currently no active Asian American federal appeals court judges in the country.

Liu should fit right in at the ridiculously liberal 9th Circuit which has been overturned more than any other court and covers Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and the Northern Marianas. Among its latest rulings of note is that a violent felon with multiple convictions can’t be deported because tattooed criminals like him are harassed by gangs and police in his native El Salvador.

[ThunderSleeps]

...suspiciously concealed more than 100...

Grounds for immediate removal from consideration. Intentionally hiding things when you are supposed to be cooperating and participating in full and open disclosure for your consideration to a post... That is a serious character flaw. In my book he is completely and irrevocably out of consideration as of right now. Next.

[ccmay]

Lying swine. Time for the Senate to go nuclear against the whole Obama agenda. Shut the place down for the rest of the year.

[pallis]

They don’t get too kooky for the 9th circus.

[muawiyah]

Liu was nominated solely because he's a member of a minority group. But, let's go further with this ~ his behavior and attitude suggest he is an UNASSIMILATED member of a minority group in this country.

Sometimes this happens with Chinese, particularly the brighter ones (who imagine they are the world's smartest people forgetting that Ashkenazi Jews and Finns score higher in standardized tests).

I'd suggest the Republicans offer to let this one go provided Obama makes arrangements for him to be nominated for a position at the 8th or 11th circuits. See if he's willing to move somewhere and work where the better Chinese restaurants focus on fried rice, and it's a 50 mile drive to a decent oriental store for basic provisions.

I bet this guy would turn that down in a NY second!

Quite frankly, given how Leftwing this Liu guy is, I'd say that if he really wants to be a Chicom there's a whole greatbig ol' country across the Pacific that might well satisfy his tastes.

[opentalk]

The “glaring omissions” were reluctantly provided by Liu only after the committee discovered them independently

After Holders supreme court Omissions, they are wise not to trust any of these nominations , without looking further.

[opentalk]

From related article at Power Line:

----...I also suggested that, coupled with Liu's lack of relevant experience, his ideology might well constitute strong grounds for opposing confirmation. Ed Whelan has since demonstrated that Liu is, indeed, too radical to merit confirmation.

--... he believes that non-blacks owe "reparations" to the descendants of slaves. The debt is owed, according to Liu, not just by the descendants of slaveowners, but by the descendants of "everyone who inherits this nation." Does this mean that the debt is owed by the descendants of slaves to whom the reparations would be awarded, or did they not inherit this nation?

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[libertarian27]

Obama’s Judicial Nominee Hides Leftwing History -(practiced law for only three years)

The heck with the Judicial - he sounds like a perfect Presidential nominee! /sarc

[opentalk]

good point, LOL

[43north]

Big F’n deal. He probably concealed less than 1% of the stuff that obamao concealed. What a piker!

[Jack Hammer]

‘The ardently leftist California law school professor nominated by President Obama to become a federal appellate court judge suspiciously concealed more than 100 of his most controversial speeches, publications and other background materials from the U.S. Senate committee that screens judicial candidates.’

Not to worry, Comrade - dishonesty is a big plus in an Obama Law Commissar.

[opentalk]

may be a plus to fit in the 9th circuit also--latest ruling from the court:

Among its latest rulings of note is that a violent felon with multiple convictions can’t be deported because tattooed criminals like him are harassed by gangs and police in his native El Salvador.

[opentalk]

update from the Hill

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Democrats are forging ahead with plans to confirm Goodwin Liu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit despite GOP protests over the nominee’s failure to fully disclose his speeches and writings.

Senate Democrats moved ahead on Wednesday with plans to hold confirmation hearings for Goodwin Liu, President Obama's nominee for a spot on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.--

not surprised by this, I think they will do this will all of their agenda for the rest of the year.

Leahy to forge ahead with Liu hearing despite GOP objections