Nina Totenberg’s incredibly one-sided report on Goodwin Liu might as well have been written by the White House. In the rush of today, I’ll highlight just one passage:

There is considerable debate about Liu’s writings, with his critics citing some passages to suggest he supports welfare as a right guaranteed under the Constitution and his defenders citing other passages to show that Liu has ruled that out.

Gee, who would ever know that Liu wrote a lengthy law-review article, “Rethinking Constitutional Welfare Rights,” 61 Stan. L. Rev. 203 (2008), in which he makes the case for what he calls an interstitial judicial role in recognizing constitutional rights to such matters as education, shelter, subsistence, and health care?