Fox's Kelly: Judicial nominee Liu's "qualifications are unassailable"

But the average FOX viewer doesn't know what "unassailable" means...

Go Megyn Kelly! She recognized that
a) Liu is qualified to be a judge.
b) President Obama is allowed to choose anyone that is qualified.
c) Liberals have a difference in philosophy that she disagrees with, but doesn't outrightly trash.

This was a surprisingly reasonable conservative view to come out of Fox News. If only all of the network's conservative opinion programming stood up for reasonable, principled conservatism.

Funny thing: did you catch that O'Reilly assumed Liu is a far-left liberal because he's a professor at Berkeley? I guess this would put him in the good liberal company of, say, John Yoo.

She looks different.

What business or corporate interests does Mr. Liu have, any?

That's the single most significant question we can or should ask, because that's the single worst thing in a Judge today, an affiliation or interest in some commercial or corporate interest.

It's not out of bounds or off topic to ask the man if he or any members of his immediate family have investments or other financial interests in energy and oil, banking and finance, tobacco, defense corporations (Lockheed Martin for example), and to follow that line of questioning as far as you can, to find out if the man has any conflicts of interest that might slant his judicial opinions on federal regulations (of banking or even emissions) or on tobacco liability or on the regulation of the firearms industry.

I'll guess that Mr. Liu has no such financial conflicts of interest, personally or in his family, but that's all the more reason to make this the primary focus of his qualifications and confirmation, and to hopefully set a precedence of sorts, because truly, this is what has our judiciary corrupted, and has turned so many Federal Judges (especially George W. Bush's appointees) into nothing but business agents in black robes.

Alas, the talk of Mr. Liu's qualifications will probably not go in this substantial and constructive direction, but will most likely get dragged off into all manner of racial and gender related issues, and how's he feel about Roe v Wade (I'm really tired of that one), and we have evidence that when you were in the Boy Scouts you once wrote insensitive things on the wall of the bathroom...

When in truth the greatest disqualification to be a Federal Judge should be any commercial or corporate conflict of interest.

This type of thing is where we get to see Senate Democrats at their absolute worst, as they avoid completely the subject of corporate influence in the nominee's personal or family life, and they (Senate Democrats) then make a sickening display of righteousness on all manner of social issues that truly effect few if any people in America, and rarely if ever come up before the Court, versus all these industrial and commercial cases (like tobacco or emissions or oil and gas royalties, even Citizens United), which effect all of us and come up before the Court often and seriously.

And of course that's why Republicans want business agents on the federal bench, but you probably already knew that, and of course that's why they get them there, because Senate Democrats take their eye completely off that ball, and swing wildly at Roe v Wade and do you wear white hooded robes and burn crosses in your spare time, etc.

Like over 50 percent of the judges in this country could agree with any or all of that as could numerous previous justices and chief justices. Some of whom are known as the best in americans history like justice louis brandeis and justice thurdgood marshall Ironically, both of them were also incorrectly tagged as extremist and dangerous crusaders of social justice by opponents and antisemitic/bigots. Instead, the two of them were probably two of the most influential figures in combatting discrimination and promoting individual and civil rights over corporatism and state sponsored segregation through the federal judicial system.

Tell roberts that justices on the right aren't supposed to be making policy. He seems fairly intent on doing just that.