Meet Goodwin Liu, next radical appointee to the federal appeals court. This is really bad....

Maybe Liu was the closest they could get to Mao...

Barack Obama’s latest appeals-court nominee, Professor Goodwin Liu, will appear tomorrow at the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing. Liu, currently teaching at Berkeley, will serve on the oft-overruled 9th Circuit court if he manages to do well in his appearance. And he should, because he has the rather unique status of having testified at the committee before — in 2006, when Liu opposed Samuel Alito’s confirmation:

“[W]e must be careful to ensure that the ideal of national citizenship does not infuse public education with nativism, cultural conformity, or chauvinistic nationalism and we should not use the concept of citizenship to deny education to noncitizen children, not least because the Equal Protection Clause extends to ‘persons,’ not only to citizens. At the same time . . . we should be thoughtful but not bashful in forging political solidarity necessary for redistributive mutual aid.” READ MORE...