Obama nominates avid anti-gun judge

[DesertBull]

Obama nominates Liu to 9th

http://gunowners.org/a032910.htm

 

Obama Pushing Another Radical Anti-gunner to the Federal Bench

Friday, March 29, 2010

 

 

"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)

 

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:

[Chef]

It's going to be a tough road ahead of us from here on out.

 

[ac guy]

Are you surprised?

[Snapshot]

Another prime example of how our President and politicians want to shape this country into a mould of thier own.

 

They all want us to become a bunch of "Docile Sheep", Bahhhhh, Bahhhh, bahhh.

 

I hope Obama enjoys his 4 year term of incompetence while it lasts.

[sjvcon]

Obama will push his radical agenda until the end of his term, which will hopefully be his only term. There is no question about it. But we are NOT powerless to stop him. The first step is this November, taking away his majorities in the House and Senate at the Ballot. We have to spread the word ... oust the incumbent Dems and any Republicans that voted with them. Replace them with CONSERVATIVES (of whatever party, though I've never met a Conservative Democrat) who understand the Constitution and the RIGHTS that it confers to AMERICAN CITIZENS. That is the first step in TAKING THIS COUNTRY BACK!!!!

[az4life]

BO is a slick talker and with the media on his side, the sheeple follow. If so many libs that did not want to jump into the fire on health care, went along with him he has to have a plan to brainwash the flock again and keep the libs in power.

Work your tails off to vote every lib out of office who voted for this POS legislation.

 

If you voted for Obama, you need to get up and slug yourself in the mouth every morning, then find a conservative to slug you in the mouth every night.

[Redman]

If you voted for Obama, you need to get up and slug yourself in the mouth every morning, then find a conservative to slug you in the mouth every night.

 

The republican party ( as you cannot call it the conservative party after the previous 8 years of unchecked spending) is the one that needs a good slugging for putting John McCain and Sarah Palin as the party's nomination.....you betcha! We can only hope and pray that the republication party is not dumb enough to nominate Palin 2012.....

 

Redman

 

 

 

 

[Snapshot]

If you voted for Obama, you need to get up and slug yourself in the mouth every morning, then find a conservative to slug you in the mouth every night.

 

The republican party ( as you cannot call it the conservative party after the previous 8 years of unchecked spending) is the one that needs a good slugging for putting John McCain and Sarah Palin as the party's nomination.....you betcha! We can only hope and pray that the republication party is not dumb enough to nominate Palin 2012.....

 

Redman

 

 

Republican or Democrat, its a pretty sad state of affairs when we don't have much too choose from, in the way of candidates.