But the famously liberal Ninth Circuit ruled that two important sections of the law were unconstitutional.
"The rhetoric is 'the liberal ninth circuit,' " said Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the law school at the University of California, Irvine.
Various explanations were offered for Mr. Eckhardt's survival as a liberal, first in the Texas Legislature and then in Congress.
The Liberal first preference vote fell to 45.6%, and strong preference flows to Schumann from Labor and One Nation came close to creating an upset.
American Wife told the story of one Alice Blackwell, the gentle, liberal first lady of a wealthy, vulgar and dim-witted president.
The word "liberal" first came into political use among a group of intellectuals who supported Woodrow Wilson taking the country into World War I.
Descendant of Gaullism, he was the dynamic two-time prime minister (1974-76 and 1986-88 ) who, in his liberal second spell, demolished the Socialist programme of the early 1980s, carrying out extensive privatisation and abolishing the wealth tax.
Born in that town (home of the Co-op, and John Bright's home base) in 1928, Smith had been a Labour man (though a Young Liberal first) since 1950: as Councillor, Alderman and Mayor.
I don't have polling data to support this contention, but I bet the majority of voters committed to more liberal "second tier" candidates like Chris Dodd and Joe Biden are anti-Clinton voters.
Meanwhile, the Working Families Party, the Green Party's primary rival for liberal third-party votes in New York, decided to back Cuomo this year, as they did in 2010, a decision that was widely criticized among their base.
