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Thursday, 26 May 2011 05:00

Goodwin Liu has an impressive record as an editor of the Yale Law Journal, clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and clerk to Judge David Tatel on the D.C. Circuit Court. An exceptional professor, attorney and legal scholar, Mr. Liu has consistently demonstrated his commitment to constitutional principles by speaking out for the individual legal protections that define our nation. He has garnered support from across the political spectrum and is eminently qualified to sit on one of the nation's most important courts of appeals.

Mr. Liu's rejection on partisan grounds is unwarranted and evidence of deep hypocrisy. Some of the senators who filibustered this extraordinary nominee were the very ones who, in the past, decried the use of the filibuster to block confirmation of judicial nominees. Preventing a floor vote on Goodwin Liu's nomination is just the final step in a long and shameful series of delays. First put forward by President Barack Obama in February 2010, he has been renominated twice thereafter.

As a coalition of diverse organizations that promotes the confirmation of federal district, circuit and Supreme Court judges committed to core constitutional freedoms and individual and civil rights, PCCV is confident Goodwin Liu would have made an exemplary judge.

CHRISTINE STONE
Co-Chair
PA Coalition for Constitutional Values
Squirrel Hill

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written by Joe Bunda, May 26, 2011 - 06:39 AM

I see. The "principled" Democrat filibustering of George Bush's court nominees was just fine.

Very hard to see how Liu would have made an "exemplary judge" (well, maybe if you're a left wing partisan) when he has *never* sat on the bench.

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written by Deke, May 26, 2011 - 07:17 AM

jb just how many of Bush's nominees compared to Obama's were denied appointments?
Next these filibuster rules need to be reset to the ones used in 1972. It is lopsided that a minority of ideologues hold us and the administration hostage.

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written by Centinel, May 26, 2011 - 07:42 AM

Hypocrisy all around, its politics.

Keep in mind that this is the President's first snub when it comes to judges, that ain't a bad record at all on his part.

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written by Joe Bunda, May 26, 2011 - 07:42 AM

written by Deke, May 26, 2011 - 07:17 AM
jb just how many of Bush's nominees compared to Obama's were denied appointments?

10

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written by Deke, May 26, 2011 - 07:58 AM

And jb how many of Obama's have been denied judge appointments keeping in mind that his administration is two years in.
Centinel I agree about the hypocrisy. I think maybe there werre more snubs though I'm not sure.

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written by Mermaid, May 26, 2011 - 10:06 AM

Politics as usual. The Republicans are against blocking the President's judicial nominations, except when they're for it.

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written by Centinel, May 26, 2011 - 04:24 PM

Deke,

1.

This guy is it

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written by Sparky, May 27, 2011 - 11:05 AM

Centinel, this is old, from last yearm still----

WASHINGTON — A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago.

The delaying tactics have proved so successful, despite the Democrats' substantial Senate majority, that fewer than half of Obama's nominees have been confirmed and 102 out of 854 judgeships are vacant.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/06/obama-judicial-appointees_n_706590.html

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