WASHINGTON — In a resumption of the judge wars from last decade, Republican senators today voted for the first successful filibuster of one of President Obama’s judicial nominees, Goodwin Liu.
Liu becomes the only Obama judicial nominee so far to lose a vote in the U.S. Senate, and the vote was not close. Fifty-two senators voted to end debate on Liu’s nomination, short of the 60 votes that he needed. One Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, crossed party lines to oppose the filibuster.
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