Excellent news out of Washington tonight.
President Obama's nominee for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Goodwin Liu, was blocked earlier this afternoon by 42 Senate Republicans in their first successful judicial filibuster of this Presidency.
Mr. Liu has been correctly called the most extreme judicial pick of Obama's two year long administration to this point, because of his radical pro-abortion, pro-internationalist and pro-judicial activism worldview, which believes the United States Constitution should not be interpreted as written by the Founders.
The yeas and nays basically followed party lines, but Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (R) did support Mr. Lui and Nebraska Senator Bill Nelson (D) did oppose him. Utah Senator Orrin Hatch (R) voted present for some unknown reason.
Senate Republicans accomplished a good deed today in keeping Mr. Liu off the federal judiciary, and perhaps the President will think twice before pushing his radical judicial philosophy down our throats again.
What say you?
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