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Help Confirm Professor Goodwin Liu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

NAPABA/AAJC ACTION ALERT

THIS IS IT: LET’S GET IT DONE!

Call NOW to Urge the Senate to Vote to Confirm Professor Goodwin Liu!

Last week, the Senate voted 56-42 in favor of confirming Judge Edward M. Chen to serve as a federal district court judge for the Northern District of California. Now the vote for judicial nominee Professor Liu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will occur in the next two days.


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Quick Hits

choi No word yet from the Obama Administration regarding overturning Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but a Korean American veteran speaks out:

AAPI Presidential Appointments in the Obama Administration Update

white-house Most people have heard about Steven Chu being named Secretary of Energy and Eric Shinseki getting the Secretary of Veteran Affairs, but there are over 8,000 jobs to be filled in the Obama Administration and AAPI's are being named to some of those. APAP is currently compiling a list of AAPI's who have secured positions in the White House. Starting next Friday, we'll be providing bi-weekly updates on some of these people and their roles. So come check out the list. And if you know of anyone we should have listed, please let us know. You can send updates to PatriceYao@apaforprogress.org To read more about Steven Chu and Eric Shinseki, join us on the other side.