Obama Finally Nominates a Liberal Appeals Court Judge

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President Obama has nominated Goodman Liu, age 39, to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Finally, he's nominated a liberal.

Goodwin Liu, 39, is an unabashed liberal legal scholar who, if confirmed, could become a force on the federal appeals court for decades. There's talk that in time, the Rhodes Scholar, former high court clerk and current assistant dean and law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, could be the first person of Asian descent chosen for the Supreme Court.