Sunday, May 22, 2011

GOP blocks Goodwin Liu from federal appeals court (Los Angeles Times)

Senate Republicans use a filibuster to block a vote on the UC Berkeley law
professor's nomination to the 9th Circuit bench in San Francisco, saying he's
too liberal. He would have been the court's first Asian American.


Senate Republicans blocked a vote on the nomination of UC Berkeley law
professor Goodwin Liu to the federal appeals court in San Francisco, making
Liu the first judicial nominee named by President Obama to be successfully
filibustered.



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