Per NAPABA: the U.S. Senate failed to pass a cloture vote on judicial nominee Professor Goodwin Liu. No up or down vote; continued filibustering.
Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick on today’s mess in the Senate. She’s so on point about the hypocrisy.
I get that the Republicans don’t like Liu; just vote straight up or down, rather than be hypocrites about this. I mean, really – the Republicans were upset that he was mean about the nomination of Justice Alito? As if mere meanness meant that Liu couldn’t be an appellate judge. And, please don’t tell me that he has no experience. I eye-roll about how a law professor who has been a Rhodes Scholar isn’t qualified to be an appeals court judge.
Nina Totenberg of NPR reports that Liu is likely to withdraw, since he has been at this for over a year now.