Obama’s Race Obsessed Nominee for the Ninth Circuit, Goodwin Liu

Gabe at AoSHQ wonders if Republican Senators will ‘hide under their desks’, as they did during the Sotomayor  nomination, to avoid being perceived as “mean” during the judiciary hearing for Goodwin Liu, slated for Wednesday. But there are good reasons to oppose his nomination, including his support for reparations:

Morgen at Verum Serum has dug up Liu’s 2008 appearance on PBS. There’s no easy soundbite here, like there was with Justice “Wise Latina” Sotomayor. Liu talks about white guilt and then obscures that issue somewhat by asserting that all modern non-black Americans share responsibility for the “benefit” of the slave trade and must agree to give something up. He suggests, “the seat at Harvard, our segregated neighborhoods, money.”

You can watch the video at Verum Serum, or AoSHQ.

Justice Antonin Scalia’s former clerk and today’s president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center Ed Whelan, writing for NRO’s Bench Memos described Liu’s grand ambitions, here:

I’ve commented before on Ninth Circuit nominee Goodwin Liu’s woeful inexperience, which should have had him struggling to avoid a “not qualified” rating by the ABA.  I’ll note that a story in today’s Washington Post manages to overstate Liu’s meager experience, as it asserts that he “worked only a few years in private practice.”  In fact, Liu worked as a junior associate at O’Melveny & Myers for less than two years (21 months).  (He also worked as a contract attorney for a law firm for some weeks before he clerked for Justice Ginsburg.)

As inexperienced as Liu is, his ambition vastly exceeds his inexperience.  Two weeks before the November 2008 presidential election, Liu took part in an American Constitution Society event,* “Counting to Five: What the 2008 Election Will Mean for the Supreme Court,” in which he stressed that Barack Obama, if elected president, should take care to nominate federal appellate judges who would be young enough to be groomed for the Supreme Court.  He also emphasized the need for the American Constitution Society and other liberal groups to “hold the administration’s feet to the fire”—i.e., to press for the nomination of very liberal judges.

On his fidelity to the Constitution, Whelan says:

Liu is closely aligned with various left-wing groups.  For example, he is (or recently was) on the boards of directors of the American Constitution Society, the ACLU of Northern California, and the National Women’s Law Center.  He apparently practiced law for about two years.

Liu is co-author of an ACS book titled Keeping Faith with the Constitution.  But what Liu means by “keeping faith” is evidently adherence to the living-constitutionalist gimmick that judges can redefine the Constitution to mean whatever they want it to mean.  Here’s how Liu explains his and his co-authors’ concept of constitutional fidelity in an ACS podcast (around the 1:30 mark):  “What we mean by fidelity is that the Constitution should be interpreted in ways that adapt its principles and its text to the challenges and conditions of our society in every succeeding generation.”

He appears to hold the position “that judges have the authority to impose their views…using clever verbal camouflage to disguise what they are doing…”

After experiencing the corrupt and obscene Obamacare cramdown, bitter Republican Senators should be spoiling for a fight. Obama has  spent the entirety of his political capital on the health care debacle, and nothing he does from now on should be deemed “inevitable”. Republicans should fight and block every single thing these Marxists throw at us from now until reinforcements arrive in January.