Professor Lui News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Republicans did phil buster his nomination to the bench last week. >> there was a qualitative change on nominations this year when republicans decided to phil buster the nomination of goodwin lui. a promising judicial candidate in part because he's thought of as being smart and quite long. he could have a long judicial career ahead of him. a lot of republican senators said that judicial nomination should never be filibustered. does that indicate a worsening. >> i quoted a number of them before professor lui's vote. we had some important votes this year. most significant vote was not lui. altho...

Career ahead of him. a lot of republican senators said that judicial nomination should never be filibustered. does that indicate a worsening. >> i quoted a number of them before professor lui's vote. we had some important votes this year. most significant vote was not goodwin lui, although it was important, but the most significant vote was a man from rhode island by the name of mcconnell, and an outstanding trial lawyer. he had in his mind of the republicans one problem, he was a trial lawyer and a very, very good one, and we fought that very, very hard. i have to say that the republicans ste...

Does that indicate a worsening. >> i quoted a number of them before professor lui's vote. we had some important votes this year. most significant vote was not lui. although that was important. the most significant vote was a man from rhode island by the name of mcconnell. an outstanding trial lawyer. he had in the mind of the republicans one problem, he was a trial lawyer. and a very, very good one. we fought that very, very hard. i have to say the republicans stepped up and said this is carry things a little too far. we were able to get this good man now a position on the federal bench where ...