WorldNetDaily - GOP Turns Back Radical Obama Court Nominee

By Alyssa Farah, WND
 
For the first time since 2005, Republicans in the U.S. Senate have staged a successful filibuster of a judicial nominee, leaving a long-stalled nomination by President Obama of far left-leaning Goodwin Liu to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals without a future.

The vote today was 52-43, with only one Republican joining in support of the highly controversial Liu, and one Democrat opposing the 39-year-old Berkeley professor's nomination.

That left the Democrats eight votes short of the 60 needed to overcome the GOP filibuster on Liu. . . .

. . . ."This is a victory for the rule of law and a sound defeat for judicial activism," said Jay Sekulow, chief of the American Center for Law and Justice.

"We're delighted that most senators understood that the radical philosophy embraced by Goodwin Liu had no place on a federal appeals court. The vote reflects the fact that most senators – and most Americans – want judges who will abide by the Constitution and the rule of law, rather than holding an extreme judicial philosophy that's outside the mainstream of American law," Selulow continued.

"The vote also underscores the importance of the Senate's constitutional responsibility of providing 'advice and consent' for judicial nominees. This vote should send a signal to President Obama that nominees with a lack of experience and a liberal activist philosophy will not be confirmed."

In the ACLJ's analysis of Liu's nomination it was revealed that in Lui's writings is a book by the American Constitution Society entitled "Keeping Faith With the Constitution." . . .

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