The New York Times
May 13, 2010, 1:29 pm
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Goodwin Liu to be a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, sending him to the full Senate for consideration after a party-line vote of 12 Democrats in favor and seven Republicans opposed.
Mr. Liu, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, has drawn more Republican opposition than any of President Obama’s other appeals court nominees because he has been open in expressing strong liberal views – like support for affirmative action and same-sex marriage.
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