[spokeshave]

Excellent Smithers

[cowtowney]

“Berkeley scholar”

[Lancey Howard]

Whew... Flush this stinking turd Liu right down the toilet.

[denydenydeny]

Wait...you mean welfare ISN’T a Constitutional right?

[Ronin]

Excellent! It’s about time we gave the Dems a taste of their own medicine.

[BruceS]

Liu told the committee that "whatever I may have written in the books and the articles would have no bearing on my action as a judge."

??? Typical liberalspeak. Whatever he wrote will have no bearing on his actions? No, but his actions will come from the same set of views that were used to write the hateful tripe he wrote about Alito and put the anti-Constitutional views he expressed into the law. The 9th Circus is already liberal. It sounds as if Liu would actually pull the court to the left.

[dennisw]

WIKIPEDIA

Liu is socially liberal. He has written in favor of affirmative action, abortion rights, and same-sex marriage and has been critical of Bush-era waterboarding policy and the death penalty. He testified in opposition to the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, stating, “Judge Alito’s record envisions an America where police may shoot and kill an unarmed boy to stop him from running away with a stolen purse; where federal agents may point guns at ordinary citizens during a raid, even after no sign of resistance . . . where a black man may be sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man . . . and where police may search what a warrant permits, and then some.”.[24] He’s also written critically of Chief Justice John Roberts, stating of his nomination that “’free enterprise,’ ‘private ownership of property,’ and ‘limited government’” are “code words for an ideological agenda hostile to environmental, workplace, and consumer protections.”[24]

His positions are usually left-leaning; however, Liu has supported charter schools and government-funded vouchers for private schools, particularly if used as a tool to “promote racial diversity.”[7]

[South40]

I’m shocked, really, that pinhead Lindsey Graham and Juan MccCain oppose this creep.

[dennisw]

This guy is a psycho....in my book at least. A subverter of America. 

The record of the typical nominee reveals only indirect — though often highly probative — clues about the nominee’s judicial philosophy. But in Liu’s case, we are not limited to the broad set of inferences that can reasonably be drawn from, say, his longtime membership on (and current chairmanship of) the board of directors of the American Constitution Society — which calls itself “one of the nation’s leading progressive legal organizations” — or from his service on the boards of directors of such organizations as the ACLU of Northern California, the National Women’s Law Center, the Public Welfare Foundation, and Chinese for Affirmative Action.

Wonder of wonders, Liu’s freewheeling constitutional approach yields a plethora of extreme left-wing results, including his support for the invention of a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Also noteworthy is his denunciation of the traditional American principles of “free enterprise,” “private ownership of property,” and “limited government” as “code words for an ideological agenda hostile to environmental, workplace, and consumer protections” (see point 3 here).

But the vast discretionary judicial role that Liu urges — one that reduces Congress and the state legislatures to quasi-administrative bodies — fundamentally misunderstands (to restate Liu’s test of judicial philosophy) “the role of the courts in a constitutional democracy.” And the recklessness Liu would show in wielding judicial power is evident from his breezy conclusion that his proposed approach to constitutional welfare rights would invalidate Congress’s method for allocating federal funds to states for the education of low-income children and would also strike down California’s system of school finance.

[Pan_Yan]

Snowe
Collins
Graham
McCain
Lugar
Brown
Grassley
Kirk
Murkowski

They’ll make a show of stopping this one, them Obama will make it a recess appointment next time they leave town. They’ll roll over on all the others.

[Peter from Rutland]

This ^%$#@ing ^%#@^ supports reparations. This guy needs to be buried in a university somewhere and left to rot.