REPUBLICANS DO THEIR HOMEWORK – AT 8:08 P.M. ET:  A controversial Obama judicial nominee is in trouble, thanks in part to real digging by the GOP.  From The Politico:

Law professor Goodwin Liu is young and progressive, and could be on the fast track to the Supreme Court — but his nomination to a lower court has already hit a troubled patch after he neglected to send some of his most controversial statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

On Tuesday, Liu sent an additional 117 items to the committee — including some of his most incendiary statements on issues such as affirmative action, school busing and constitutional welfare rights. Liu’s hearing has already been postponed once, and his failure to disclose controversial writings has Republicans saying Liu’s nomination is in “jeopardy.”

The missing material “creates the impression that he knowingly attempted to hide his most controversial work from the committee,” Judiciary Republicans wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy on Tuesday.

Liu has been nominated to the 9th Circuit, a traditionally liberal bench, and conservatives from California to Washington are declaring war on his nomination.

COMMENT:  Liu's nomination is just further proof that Obama wants to move the country far to the left, not just more toward "liberalism."  Republicans will have a popular stand here, although, again, it means antagonizing another ethnic group, in this case Asian Americans.  But this is not a man we want to see on the Supreme Court, or any other for that matter.

April 6, 2010