Berkeley's Judge Goodwin Liu - WSJ.com: "For a preview of the pitfalls facing President Obama if he nominates a liberal to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, yesterday's hearing for Goodwin Liu is instructive. As a nominee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the 39-year-old Berkeley law school professor is a prototype for those who believe the Constitution should be read to reflect what he has called the 'evolving norms and social understandings of our country.'
If Mr. Liu's judicial philosophy wouldn't be familiar to the Framers, it is de rigueur in the elite colleges and law schools from which he hails. Speaking of the nomination of now Chief Justice John Roberts, Mr. Liu opined that words like ''free enterprise,' 'private ownership of property,' and 'limited government'' are 'code words for an ideological agenda hostile to environmental, workplace, and consumer protections.'"
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