'Press 1 for English' Nominee Voted Up by Senate Judiciary
by "Human Events'
10/16/2009

Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary approved President Obama’s nomination of Magistrate Judge Edward Chen to the bench of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The vote was on party lines.

Why? Because Chen -- like so many other Obama nominees to the bench including Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor -- has written and said enough to justify a vote against him. The reasons are much the same as they were in the Sotomayor case.

Like Sotomayor, Chen appears to be too great a risk of judicial activism, personal biases and political correctness all of which are alien to the American justice system. A former ACLU Foundation lawyer, he’s well-known for his condemnation of “English-onlyâ€