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To: Sully- who wrote (33364)4/16/2010 1:08:56 AM
From: Sully-  Respond to of 35834
 
Obama judicial nominee turns over more forgotten documents

By: Susan Ferrechio
Chief Congressional Correspondent
04/15/10 4:45 PM EDT

Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans sent a letter to panel Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on Thursday demanding that the confirmation hearing for 9th Circuit Court nominee Goodwin Liu be postponed.

The hearing is set to begin in Friday, but the panel's top Republican, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said Liu has for the second time turned over previously undisclosed information.

Sessions, in the letter to Leahy, said the new material was discovered Tuesday by GOP staff and that Liu, a Berkeley School of Law professor, said he "did not recall" seven of the items before turning over even more previously undisclosed information.

Liu had earlier this month turned over 117 items in a supplement to his senate questionnaire.

"There is now a serious question as to whether Professor Liu has approached this process with the degree of candor and respect required of nominees who come before the Committee," Sessions said in the letter. "We can no longer extend him the benefit of the doubt that these substantial omissions—in which several of his more extreme statements appear—were a mere oversight."


No response yet from Leahy, who last week denied the GOP's request to delay the hearing.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com