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Democrats are forging ahead with plans to confirm Goodwin Liu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit despite GOP protests over the nominee’s failure to fully disclose his speeches and writings.
In a sternly worded letter Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) denied a Republican request to postpone Liu’s hearing to review the undisclosed information.
“I had hoped that in this new year, we could put political rancor aside and come together to openly and fairly debate President Obama’s qualified judicial nominees,”
Leahy wrote in a letter to Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the ranking Republican on Judiciary.
[Provided such 'debate' doesn't include the nominee's own writings for consideration - it's only a life-time appointment, after all.]
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