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Obama Pushing Another Radical Anti-gunner to the Federal
Bench
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"Liu believes that judges have the authority to impose their views... using clever verbal camouflage to disguise what they're doing." -- Ed Whelan, a one-time clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia and now president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (3/4/10)
Monday, March 29, 2010
Imagine a judicial candidate that is so far to the left that even
Obama's
Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, is hesitant to push him forward.
Imagine a liberal law professor that not only fails to meet the
ABA's basic
requirements for a federal judge, but is so green behind the ears that
it
appears the only reason he is being nominated to the federal courts is
because
he served as part of President Obama's transition team.
If you can imagine such a leftist candidate, then you would be
thinking of
Goodwin Liu, the President's recent nominee for the U.S. Court of
Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit.
Liu is the Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the ultra-left UC
Berkeley School of Law. Only 39 years old, he comes nowhere near
fulfilling the ABA's standards for a judge.
But what he lacks in experience, he makes up for in radical
liberalism. In a recent book that he co-authored, Liu says that,
"Applications of constitutional text and principles must be open to
adaptation
and change... as the conditions and norms of our society become ever
more
distant from those of the Founding generation."
Got it? Like many radical progressives, Liu believes that our
rights
are constantly evolving. The Second Amendment might have been necessary
in
the 1700s, he believes, but now those rights are no longer necessary.
In Liu's world, there would be no gun rights
Noted author David Kopel cites a law journal article of Liu's where
he
criticizes the Supreme Court for declaring two gun control laws as
unconstitutional -- the Brady Law's unfunded mandate and the Gun-Free
School
Zones Act.
Liu said that Supreme Court cases like these did "damage" to civil
rights
and "upset settled understandings of congressional power." What?!
Striking down gun control laws does damage to civil rights? Well, let's
be
clear: the Court did upset someone's "settled" understanding of things,
but it was the LIBERAL'S misunderstanding of the Constitution.
By the way, Liu co-authored the 2002 law journal article with
then-Senator
Hillary Clinton... which should tell us all we need to know about Liu's
liberal,
anti-gun views!
Rights evolve over time?
The bottom line is that Liu would not be a stickler for the
Constitution if
he were to sit on the appellate court.
"It becomes pretty clear why 'originalism' and 'strict
construction' don't
make a lot of sense," Liu said in an interview promoting his book. "The
Framers
deliberately chose... broad words so they would be adaptable to new
challenges
over time."
No wonder that the ranking Republican member of the Senate
Judiciary
Committee, Jeff Sessions (R-AL), spoke out so forcefully against the
nomination
of Goodwin Liu:
I am very disappointed by President Obama's nomination of Professor Goodwin Liu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit....
Instead of nominating an individual who has demonstrated an
impartial
commitment to following the Constitution and the rule of law, President
Obama
has selected someone far outside the mainstream of American
jurisprudence.
Professor Liu believes that judges should look to "evolving norms and
social
understandings" in interpreting the Constitution, he has a history of
advocating
for racial preferences, and he served on the Board of the directors of
the
ACLU.
ACTION: Please urge your two Senators to oppose Obama's appointment of Goodwin Liu, the latest anti-gun liberal to be picked for the federal courts. You can use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Senator:
I oppose the nomination of Goodwin Liu, the President's recent
nominee for
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Liu is an anti-gun, radical leftist who doesn't even meet the ABA's
basic
requirements for a federal judge, as he has neither practiced law for 12
years,
nor has he any experience as a trial lawyer.
Liu believes that our rights are constantly evolving... which is
why I'm
very concerned about his Second Amendment views. He co-authored a law
journal article in 2002 with then-Senator Hillary Clinton, wherein he
criticizes
the Supreme Court for declaring two gun control laws as unconstitutional
-- the
Brady Law's unfunded mandate and the Gun-Free School Zones Act.
Leftists like Liu think our gun rights might have been necessary in
the
1700s, but are no longer necessary today. I agree with Senator Jeff
Sessions' critique of Liu, as the latter mistakenly thinks that judges
should
look to "evolving norms and social understandings" in interpreting the
Constitution.
I vehemently oppose this view and hope you will vote against any
nominee
who doesn't stand strong on the Bill of Rights.
Please oppose Goodwin Liu.
Sincerely,
**********************
“Because we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence, we now pledge “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred Honor” not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the State, whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us.”
~ Butler D. Shaffer, Professor, SWU School of Law, 9 June 2003
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March 31, 2010 in Current Affairs | Permalink
