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Goodwin Liu and the Politics of the Death Penalty

By Steve Hall

The distinguished UC Berkeley Law prof has been nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  Liu's nomination is illuminating the intersection of politics and capital punishment in today's American political landscape.  In 2005, Liu and Lynsay Skiba authored the ACS white paper, "Judge Alito and the Death Penalty." Today's Washington Post reports, "Appeals court nominee Liu causes battle in Senate," by Ben Pershing. A battle is intensifying in the Senate over the appeals court nomination of Goodwin Liu, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley whom some Democrats consider a potential nominee one day to the Supreme Court. Democrats vowed Wednesday to press ahead with plans for an April 16 Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination to the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).