Posted on 02/04/2010 5:20:39 PM PST by Steelfish
Senate Panel Backs Obama's Judge Nominee Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved President Obama's nomination of U.S. Magistrate Edward Chen to a federal judgeship in San Francisco on a party-line vote for the second time Thursday, with Republicans criticizing his public statements and background as an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer.
The 12-7 vote was identical to Chen's margin of approval at a committee hearing in October. Democratic leaders never brought the nomination up for a Senate floor vote and instead returned it to Obama, who renominated Chen last month.
Chen, 56, was appointed as a magistrate by Bay Area federal judges in 2001. He would be the first Asian American judge in the federal Northern District of California, which extends along the coast from Monterey County to the Oregon border.
He was an ACLU attorney in San Francisco from 1985 to 2001 and worked on a suit unsuccessfully challenging Proposition 209, the 1996 initiative that outlawed state and local affirmative action programs based on race or gender preferences.
Republicans said they questioned his impartiality based on his ACLU work and some of his speeches and writings. Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., quoted Chen as saying in a 2007 speech that he found it rewarding to write decisions that contributed to the development of the law, "especially if it comports with my view of justice."
"He has his own view of what justice is," Kyl said. "That's not what a judge should bring to the court."
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WOAH! Is the GOP growing a pair or did they get a spine transplant.
This potential appointee is a real lib moonbat. See some of his “judgments”.
I tried to look up Chen’s judgments. Google is spammed heavily with “loyal American” and “smear”.
Mark Levin mentioned last night just how wacky this nutcase is, what Sidney Deadfish Blumenthal would call a regular Foxtrot R-word. I’ve yet to find anything to compare with the reeking heap Chen was exposed to be by the Great One. Here is what I found from Washington Times:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/25/another-judicial-radical
Chen is a good poster-boy for the ACLU. He says displays of patriotism give him “feelings of ambivalence and cynicism”. Ten days after 9-11-01, he said that one of his first thoughts about the terror attack was a “sickening feeling in my stomach” about US race relations and “religious tolerance”. He wrote: “One has to wonder whether the seemingly irresistible forces of racism, nativism and scapegoating which has [sic] recurred so often in our history can be effectively restrained.”
Regarding Sotomeyor: “Simply put, a judge’s life experiences affect the willingness to credit testimony or understand the human impact of legal rules upon which the judge must decide. These determinations require a judge to draw upon something that is not found in the case reports that line the walls of our chambers. Rather judges draw upon the breadth and depth of their own life experience.... Inevitably, one’s ethnic and racial background contributes to those life experiences.”
[End of summary]
The Great One believes that Scott Edward had to speed up his seating specifically to block Chen’s rubber stamp.
Leftist spin is that Chen simply hates the song, “America the Beautiful”. It runs much deeper than that, but so far as I know, Mark Levin’s first hour on Thursday is the best place to learn the truth about this nutjob.
Senator Kyle and Sessions are always courageous, so much so that the Drive-bys try to avoid quoting them.
I still can’t find a summary of this Foxtrot R-word comparable to Mark Levin’s. All I know is that Chen is just the kind of guy to put us “bitter clingers” on a tight facist leash.
Only ten days after 9/11 occurred, Chen remarked that he imagined that America would revert to the “irresistible forces of racism, nativism and scapegoating” of the past and begin systematic oppression of American Muslims. [snip]
Chen claimed that we secretly rounded up a thousand Muslim Americans “without charges”. He said that Katrina happened because “they were black”. After the Virginia Tech shootings, Chen thought hate crimes against Asians would escalate. He truly thinks we are dominantly evil redneck hicks.
In a 2003 article, he wrote:
“Rather judges draw upon the breadth and depth of their own life experience, upon the knowledge and understanding of people, and of human nature. And inevitably, one’s ethnic and racial background contributes to those life experiences.” [His view of human nature would require most law abiding Americans to be locked in padded cells.]
Scott Edward? Scott Brown. Drink some coffee, you dolt.
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