Posted on 03/30/2011 10:28:52 AM PDT by caldera599
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on pro-abortion federal appeals court nominee Goodwin Liu, whom President Barack Obama picked for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Liu, liberal a University of California law professor, is slated to come before the panel on Thursday, where he will face strong opposition again from Republicans.
He is a left-wing abortion supporter who conservative legal guru Ed Whelan observed was so left-wing that former “White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel initially vetoed” his candidacy for the Ninth Circuit “on the ground that Liu’s left-wing record made him too controversial.” But Whelan says new White House counsel Robert Bauer “eager to please the Left, successfully pushed back.”
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The R’s will approve playing, “We want them to approve our nominees.” Even they the D’s never do anyway.
And of course the courtly "Republicans" will all vote for him lest they seem uncivil, poor babies.
But you can bank on Orrin voting to approve!
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