Obama poised to nominate Goodwin H. Liu to 9th Circuit

Jonathan H. Adler writing at The Volokh Conspiracy: “The Daily Journal reports that President Obama is “poised” to nominate Professor Goodwin Liu, Associate Dean at the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prof. Liu is an accomplished scholar with an impressive background. But I also suspect his nomination could face a chilly reception from Senate Republicans, and not simply because he is a liberal academic . . . I believe Senate Republicans are likely to oppose Prof. Liu for multiple reasons. First, Prof. Liu Chairs the Board of Directors the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy . . . Second, Prof. Liu was an outspoken critic of President Bush’s nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.”