Friday, May 20, 2011

Extraordinary GOP Hypocrisy Dooms Goodwin Liu

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
Goodwin LiuIt was a hall of mirrors of hypocrisy at Thursday's Senate vote on the nomination of Goodwin Liu to be a judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. At least 60 senators had to agree to allow the Senate to give Liu a straight up-or-down vote. Didn't happen. Liu, a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley, is the first judicial nominee to be filibustered since 2005.First, there are the most obvious failures of intellectual consistency: Republicans who once claimed that filibustering judicial nominees is "offensive to our nation's constitutional...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/05/20/extraordinary_gop_hypocrisy_dooms_goodwin_liu_255791.html

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