URGENT: Contact our Senators Burr and Hagan to oppose cloture and stop Obama's 'Worst Judicial Nominee'

Verne Strickland USA DOT COM  May 17, 2011 TAKE ACTION TO STOP OBAMA'S WORST   JUDICIAL NOMINEE - GOODWIN LIU On Tuesday night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed cloture to end debate on the nomination of Goodwin Liu to the federal appeals court for the 9th District based in California.The vote will be on Thursday and it will take 60 votes to bring Liu's nomination to a vote. Of all the poorly qualified political activists President Obama has  nominated to the federal bench, Liu is arguably the worst of the bunch. An Associate Dean at Berkeley School of Law, Liu has no  trial experience and does not even meet the standards set by the American Bar Association.  A hero to the left for opposing the nominations of John Roberts and Samuel  Alitoto the Supreme Court, Liu, if confirmed, would nevertheless be the  odds-on favoritefor the next Supreme Court vacancy. Liu has made it clear that he believes the constitution is merely a guide to judicial decisions.  In his writings, Liu said he "envisions the judiciary as a  culturally situated interpreter of social meaning."  The key to judicial decisions, says Liu, should be "our collective values,"  "evolving norms," and "social understandings," rather than the Constitution  as written or the laws passed by Congress. How would this philosophy manifest itself?  Well, for one thing, Liu has said  there is a constitutional right to welfare, or as he put it, "negative rights against government oppression" and "positive rights to government assistance" should have "equal constitutional status." Liu's view on criminal law has resulted in the extraordinary opposition  from 42 of 58 District Attorney's in California, where the 9th Circuit  is based. Here's what they said about a Liu paper on criminal law: "This document demonstrated beyond serious question that his (Liu's)  views on criminal law, capital punishment and the role of the federal courts in second-guessing state decisions are fully aligned" with an  appeals court that is "far outside of the judicial mainstream." Other writings by Liu have supported reparations for slavery  and racial quotas to remedy "societal discrimination," a position  rejected by the Supreme Court. Although Liu wants a pass for his past statements, he helped lead the  fight against the Roberts and Alito Supreme Court nominations.  Roberts,  he said in an op-ed, had an "ideological agenda" hostile to the environmental workplace and consumer protections.  Liu testified at Alito's confirmation hearing that the "America envisioned by his (Alito's) record is not the  America we know, nor is it the America we aspire to be."    STOP THE LIU NOMINATION BY TAKING ACTION  NOW.  URGE Sen. Richard M. Burr AND Sen. Kay Hagan  TO OPPOSE CLOTURE ON THE LIU NOMINATION BY  CALLING (202) 224-3154 OR (202) 224-6342 NOW. We at the American Conservative Union thank you for all you do to advance  conservative principles. Sincerely, Al Cardenas Chairman American Conservative Union http://mail.aol.com/33668-111/aol-1/en-us/Lite/MsgRead.aspx?folder= NewMail&uid=1.28885094&seq=3&searchIn=none&searchQuery= &start=0&sort=received