Goodwin Liu’s failed Ninth Circuit nomination as parable

In “How Democrats Lost the Courts,” The Atlantic magazine writer Emma Green talks about how Democrats “recite the parable of Goodwin Liu,” referring to the 2011 Republican filibuster of President Obama’s nomination of Liu to serve on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The article says that progressives “are reviewing the times they’ve been outworked, outfought, and outsmarted on judicial nominations” and that, “[b]efore Merrick Garland’s stint in purgatory, before Brett Kavanaugh’s furious denial of assault allegations, before Amy Coney Barrett’s eleventh-hour confirmation, there was Goodwin Liu.”