goodwin liu. he is here before the senate judiciary committee. this will be a test case of president obama's ability to win confirmation for a liberal appeals court nominee. around one is today. -- around one is today. live coverage here on c-span. -- round one is today. live coverage here on c-span. >> i would like to welcome everyone to this morning's here in. -- hearing. we have just been joined by the chairman. mr. chairman, -- >> it is your hearing. >> we will hear from professor goodwin liu who has been nominated for a seat on the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit. professor goodwin liu is a nationally recognized expert on constitutional law and educational policy. he is the associate dean of the university of california berkeley school of law. before i give some brief remarks, as also the center from california, i will like to just quickly go over the order of this hearing. there'll be five-minute rounds. we will use the early bird rule. we will go from side to side. foll

goodwin liu. i think it says something about his approach to the law, his philosophy of the law and we will be looking into that today. i will be asking questions about a number of things. there are many, many things that the professor has written. one in his stanford law review article of november of 2008 "rethinking constitutional welfare rights," he states that my thesis is the welfare rights depends on socially situated modes of reasoning that appear not to transcendent moral principles of an ideal society, but to the culturally and but to the culturally and historically contingent meaning -- he goes on to say that, "i argued that welfare rights are conceived as an act of interpreting the understandings of particular welfare goods as they are manifested. it goes on to say that welfare rights reflect the contingent character of our society's collective judgment rather than in the tidy logic of comprehensive moral theory. i think that is a matter of which we should talk about. i hope that we wil

goodwin liu. i think it says something about his approach to the law, his philosophy of the law and we will be looking into that today. i will be asking questions about a number of things. there are many, many things that the professor has written. one in his stanford law review article of november of 2008 "rethinking constitutional welfare rights," he states that my thesis is the welfare rights depends on socially situated modes of reasoning that appear not to transcendent moral principles of an ideal society, but to the culturally and historically contingent meaning of social good in our society. he goes on to say that "i argue that the judicial recognition of welfare rights is best the lead as an act of interpreted shared understanding of particular welfare and good as they are manifested in our institution, law and the ball in faculties." he goes on to say that use the kabul welfare rights represent the collective judgments rather than the tidy logic of instant moral theory. well, i think that

goodwin liu.i think it says something about his approach to the law, his philosophy of the law and we will be looking into that today. i will be asking questions about a number of things. there are many, many things that the professor has written. one in his stanford law review article of november of 2008 "rethinking constitutional welfare rights," he states that my thesis is the welfare rights depends on socially situated modes of reasoning that appear not to transcendent moral principles of an ideal society, but to the culturally and historically contingent meaning of social good in our society. he goes on to say that "i argue that the judicial recognition of welfare rights is best the lead as an act of interpreted shared understanding of particular welfare and good as they are manifested in our institution, law and the ball in faculties." he goes on to say that use the kabul welfare rights represent the collective judgments rather than the tidy logic of instant moral theory. well, i think that

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we know there's a lot of republican support for goodwin liu, we're going to watch this procedure carefully it's always good to have you with us. >> thank you. bill: he's another headline, president obama ordering most hospitals in america to honor visitation rights to gay and lessan members, saying same sex partners must get the same privileges as married couples. melanie wilkes is whot the -- is at the white house. >> this allows patients to say who has visitation rights and who can make medical decisions for them and obviously, one community 's group this applies to is gays and lesbians. the president issued this statement last night as he was wrapping up a fund-raiser in miami, it directs the health and human services secretary to draft rules requiring hospitals that receive medicare and medicaid funding, which is most of them, to respect the rights of patients in designating their visitors. of course it could apply to anybody who prefers a close friend say to a family member, but the president did acknowledge that, quote, it uniquely feats gay and best lan -- lesbian americans who are

the senate judiciary committee holds a hearing on judicial nominations including law professor goodwin liuto be a u.s. circuit judge on the ninth sisht. on c-span 2, senators continue the examineation of the role of the banking regulators. >> this weekend the first of three british election debates. for the first time prime minister gordon brown, david cameron and nick clegg will face off in u.s.-style debates. watch them in their entirety for three consecutive weekends. >> two senators yesterday threatened to subpoena the pentagon and justice department as part of an investigation into last year's fort hood shootings. joe lieberman and susan collins lead the homeland security committee. this is a little less than a half-hour. >> good afternoon. thanks for being here. this afternoon senator collins and i want to provide you with an update on the senate homeland security investigation of the murder of 13 americans by major nidal hassan at fort hood and also to scuzz our frustrated efforts to obtain information to answer critical questions about why -- to discuss our frustrated efforts to ob

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. >> holman: the focus at the senate judiciary committee hearing was goodwin liu, law professor at the university of california, berkeley. he's been nominated for the ninth circuit court of appeals in san francisco. republican orrin hatch of utah charged liu's writings show he'd reinterpret the constitution to suit his liberal views. >> it's one thing to be a law professor and make a lot of hypotheticals and other things. do you still stand by these approaches that you can make the law anything you want to? >> whatever i may have written in the books and articles would have no bearing on my role as a judge. >> holman: as the hearing went on, liu was pressed repeatedly to say he'd be impartial, if confirmed. >> as much as i like my own views, i confess to you that i would actually be a little afraid if i was the only voice speaking and that everything went my way. that is not the kind of certainty i have about my own views. >> holman: liu has sharply criticized conservative u.s. supreme court justices john roberts and samuel alito. but republican jeff sessions contrasted their experienc

wants him for one of the most influential courts in the united states but the gop now says that goodwin liuething that o'clock be overlooked, the leading republican on the senate ju dacrary committee set to make news when he joins us live. >>> tea party groups coming together today as we have never seen before, former vice president dan quayle has a warning for them heading into the midterm elections. you'll hear it from the state today