Was the tanking of Goodwin Liu to the 9th Circuit a case of an eye for an eye?
I’m not convinced since many liberals nominees of Obama’s have moved passed to confirmation. If the Republicans wanted to get even with Democrats common sense would dictate that most of those earlier nominee’s would have been filibustered. Instead, I believe this guy was indeed a case of “extraordinary circumstance”
He is a far left activist, who told the Senate that a Samuel Alito America would look like Nazi Germany where cops will shoot unarmed kids in the back; all white juries will send black men to their death because they dared to kill a white person; and federal agents will terrorize the populace.
Oh, and how about that Constitution of ours. To Liu, it guarantees:
basic employment supports such as expanded health insurance, child care, transportation subsidies, job training, and a robust earned income tax credit.
He is a radical leftist, so the laughingstock known as the 9th Circuit of Appeals would of welcomed him with open arms, but alas he is no more:.
Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a final vote on President Obama’s choice for a federal appeals court opening, marking the first successful Republican filibuster of an Obama administration judicial nominee.
The 52-to-43 vote left the Senate 8 votes short of the 60 needed to end debate on the nomination of Goodwin Liu, a Berkeley law professor.
The left is trying to spin this as an eye for an eye, and I’m sure Republicans remember well the record of Democrats during the Bush years….including one Senator Obama, but in the end I have to agree with Charles here….it came down to the guy being a far left kook:
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