The Senate will vote on President Obama’s nomination of Berkley law professor Goodwin Liu to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today. Politico‘s Meredith Shiner reports that Liu “teeters toward a loss”:
The Obama administration is teetering toward losing a fierce battle with Senate Republicans over the long-stalled appointment of Goodwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a nominee conservatives fear would drag the liberal-leaning court further to the left.
Democrats need seven Republicans to join them in supporting Liu to overcome a filibuster, but several key Republicans said Wednesday they would not support the 39-year-old law professor from the University of California, Berkley. And if just one more Republican says no, Liu will fail to break the filibuster.
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