NO Vote for Obama Judicial Activist, Goodwin Liu

[marshabar1]

Vote Against Goodwin Liu a Victory for the Rule of Law

In one of the most important votes on Obama’s lower court judicial nominees, Democrats were unable to overcome the filibuster of Ninth Circuit Court nominee Goodwin Liu in a vote in the U.S. Senate this afternoon.

blog.heritage.org/2011/05/19/vote-against-goodwin-liu-a-victory-for-the-rule-of-law/

VERY good news! ;D

[Deleted]

Wow. I didn't know about him. Kudos to the Senate, for once!!

[henryclay]

the vote sends an important signal to the White House that conservatives will not unilaterally disarm on the filibuster when the President nominates individuals who would do serious damage to the Constitution and the rule of law.

Now, what about that debt ceiling thing? When do we get to see the filibuster on it?

[marshabar1]

I love that the American public (conservatives anyway) are so aware of the dangers this administration poses to this country. Chatter chatter. . .

My thesis is that the legitimacy of judicial recognition of welfare rights depends on socially situated modes of reasoning that appeal not to transcendent moral principles for an ideal society, but to the culturally and historically contingent meanings of particular social goods in our own society.… I argue that judicial recognition of welfare rights is best conceived as an act of interpreting the shared understandings of particular welfare goods as they are manifested in our institutions, laws, and evolving social practices.

On this account, the existence of a welfare right depends on democratic instantiation in the first instance, typically in the form of a legislated program, with the judiciary generally limited to an interstitial role. Further, because the shared understandings of a given society are ultimately subject to democratic revision, courts cannot fix the existence or contours of a welfare right for all time. So conceived, justiciable [i.e., judicially cognizable] welfare rights reflect the contingent character of our society’s collective judgments rather than the tidy logic of a comprehensive moral theory.

www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/49264/ninth-circuit-nominee-goodwin-liu-constitutional-welfare-rights-mdash-part-1/ed-wh

Kagan institutionalizes racism and this guy would have institutionalized the "right" to cradle to grave big brotherism.

[Deleted]

A RIGHT to welfare??? All wrapped up in fancy words, but that is the gist of it. Good grief!! I'm SO glad someone is paying attention NOW and starting to block these freaks from positions of power. Too bad our gov't is already crawling with them, and some we can't even get rid of.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

The Ninth Circus is the looney tunes court anyway- probably wouldn't have mattered. I like that Republicans showed some backbone, though. Buh bye!