The confirmation hearing for Goodwin Liu — President Obama’s nominee for a seat on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals–is turning into a firestorm in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., the ranking GOP member, claims that Liu’s failure to submit a complete list of his writings in his Senate questionnaire might place the nomination in jeopardy.
Wednesday afternoon Sessions issued a statement criticizing Liu and asking the committee’s chairman, Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to postpone Liu’s hearing currently scheduled for next week. “Goodwin Liu’s entire record consists primarily of a stunning series of writings and speeches—and yet he failed to disclose dozens of those writings and speeches to the Judiciary Committee, ” Sessions said.
In a letter to Leahy Sessions wrote “At best, this nominee’s extraordinary disregard for the Committee’s constitutional role demonstrates incompetence; at worst, it creates the impression that he knowingly attempted to hide his most controversial work from the Committee”.
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