Far from the Bench

Liu must be stopped

Goodwin Liu is as dangerous a man for the judiciary as President Obama is for the executive office. At least with Obama, there are term limits, thank God. If Liu is ever appointed to a circuit court, or even higher as some are speculating, he will wreak havoc for decades. Republicans in the senate must do whatever necessary to stop Liu from getting on the bench. When I first caught wind of Obama back in '03 and '04, I could sense immediately that he was bad news. Liu strikes me as eerily similar to Obama in his radicalism.

From The Wall Street Journal:

For a preview of the pitfalls facing President Obama if he nominates a liberal to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, yesterday's hearing for Goodwin Liu is instructive. As a nominee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the 39-year-old Berkeley law school professor is a prototype for those who believe the Constitution should be read to reflect what he has called the "evolving norms and social understandings of our country."

If Mr. Liu's judicial philosophy wouldn't be familiar to the Framers, it is de rigueur in the elite colleges and law schools from which he hails. Speaking of the nomination of now Chief Justice John Roberts, Mr. Liu opined that words like "'free enterprise,' 'private ownership of property,' and 'limited government'" are "code words for an ideological agenda hostile to environmental, workplace, and consumer protections."

On the nomination of now-Justice Samuel Alito, Professor Liu was even nastier. In a statement reminiscent of Ted Kennedy's slur against Robert Bork, Mr. Liu wrote that "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."

What kind of sane, balanced person talks this way?