“[Liu’s writings] suggest a deeply-held commitment to the view that the Constitution can mean pretty much whatever a judge wants it to, that judges can just make it up as they go along.” ~ Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) comments on the Senate floor, Thursday, May 19.
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate rejected President Obama’s pick for a seat on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. In a procedural motion that required 60 votes, Goodwin Liu’s nomination was defeated in a near-party line vote of 52-43.
Liu was perhaps the most radical of Obama’s judicial nominees. The UC Berkley law professor supported the notion that the language of the Constitution is sufficiently ambiguous to bend with the times.
“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.”
In Liu’s view, the right to keep and bear arms may have been necessary in the 18th century, but no longer needed.
For these reasons, the Senate was flooded with emails from gun owners insisting that Liu be voted down.
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While Liu’s defeat is a victory for Second Amendment supporters, it is also indicative that Obama is pursuing a course to pull the federal judiciary as far to the left as possible. GOA will continue to expose the disdain with which Obama’s nominees hold the Second Amendment.
Tags: Goodwin Liu, Gun Control, Gun Owners of America, News, Politics
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June 24, 2011 at 16:51
Whenever the term “living constitution” is used, you know they’re about to do something epically unconstitutional.
For Liu to presume to know what the Framers meant is preposterous, and to further presume they were politically correct in today’s sense is simple dishonesty.
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June 26, 2011 at 20:55
Good points Patrick and the Senate did good in not going for Liu…
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July 2, 2011 at 16:21
Examples of his version of a “living Constitution” might be ex post facto law, the taking of rights for less than felonious behavior or less than serious mental disability, mysandry being all fine and dandy. As well as a host of other left wing ideas based in political correctness.
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