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GOP attacks appeals court nominee Goodwin Liu
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Contributor | ScottĀ³ |
Last Edited | ScottĀ³ Apr 17, 2010 01:57pm |
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Category | News |
Author | Bob Egelko |
Media | Newspaper - San Francisco Chronicle |
News Date | Saturday, April 17, 2010 07:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | "Senate Republicans took turns flaying appeals court nominee Goodwin Liu at his confirmation hearing Friday, accusing the UC Berkeley law professor of planning to rewrite the Constitution to enlarge government, expand judicial power and invent new rights.
The Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, said Liu's writings exemplified "intellectual judicial activism," and ridiculed his attempt to distinguish his academic role from the job he would do as a judge.
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said Liu would bring a liberal agenda to the court, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said he might have held Liu in contempt when he was a trial judge for initially failing to produce some biographical material for the committee.
Liu remained unruffled during the 3 1/2-hour hearing, saying repeatedly that he would set aside his personal views but not his human responses to the cases he would face if confirmed to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
"There is a human aspect to judging," he told Kyl. "That's why we don't put legal problems through a machine or through a computer."
The committee has a 12-7 Democratic majority and is virtually certain to approve Liu's nomination in the next few weeks and send it to the full Senate. But Sessions, who has portrayed the appointment as an ideological test of President Obama's judicial choices, has all but promised a filibuster on the Senate floor." |
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