{"id":1768,"date":"2010-04-08T20:04:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T20:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2010-04-08T20:04:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T20:04:57","slug":"senate_judiciary_committee_hea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1768","title":{"rendered":"Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings On Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Paul Mirengoff at Power Line<\/a> reported that Senator Leahy, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has announced that the hearings on the appointment of Goodwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will proceed on schedule.  <\/p>\n

Mr. Liu has just provided the committee with 117 previously withheld items that were requested.  According to this article, the material deals with his ideas on controversial items such as affirmative action, judicial activism, immigration, and “constitutional welfare rights.” <\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. Mirengoff concludes:<\/p>\n

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“Under these circumstances, I wonder whether Leahy is making a mistake by rushing ahead. At the end of the day, the Dems will need some Republican votes to confirm Liu in the face of a filibuster. Even if they can stomach Liu’s radical positions on issues like reparations to African-Americans, the likes of Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham, and Scott Brown aren’t likely to be happy about efforts to limit the ability of Republicans fully to explore Liu’s key writings and the reasons why he withheld many of them from the Senate.” <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I understand that the President has the power to appoint judges, and generally speaking, I think he should be allowed his choices, but do we really need to appoint a judge who believes in reparations and “constitutional welfare rights?”  It seems as if the Democrats in the majority have forgotten how even to be reasonable when they are in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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