By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Berkley Constitutional Law Professor – Goodwin Liu

Not content with signing into being the unconstitutional health care law today, Obama is moving forward with further power grabs such as Cap and Trade and Illegal Immigration. Possibly the most disturbing move is his calculated plan to solidify his control of the highest court in the land by seating an uber-radical – namely Professor Goodwin Liu of Berkley.

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings to consider the nomination Liu to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The hearing will be fraught with arguments from the left and right concerning Liu’s political leanings. But there is no doubt that Liu is a leftest to the nth degree and his views differ radically from the beliefs held by the majority of Americans. In fact, his views are outside the majority of judicial thinking as a whole.

From ABC News:

“His nomination seems to me to represent the apex of judicial activist philosophy,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “His views represent a fundamental change in our understanding of the role in society of the court.”

His youth and ethnicity will be used to help get him appointed to the Supreme Court. No tactic will be left untried to accomplish this placement. Liu is the most prominent liberal academic to be considered as a justice ever in history.

Liu believes in a ‘living Constitution.’ One that is subject to modern day interpretation and therefore always changing and morphing as the powers-that-be see fit. He has never argued a Supreme Court case. Instead, he has focused on civil rights and Constitutional law. I might point out that becoming a Constitutional Law Professor is a stroke of genius. Learn the Constitution so you can use it against our legal system and destroy it.

Some of the areas in which Liu has delved:

• Affirmative Action
• The Death Penalty
• Welfare Rights
• Same-Sex Marriages

More from ABC News:

He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2000 and later told the Los Angeles Times that Bush v. Gore, the decision that settled the 2000 presidential election, was “utterly lacking in legal principle.”

Sessions and other Republicans on the committee are concerned about Liu’s judicial philosophy as outlined in a book he co-authored, “Keeping Faith with the Constitution.” In the book, Liu writes that the Constitution should be interpreted by adapting its broad principles to the conditions faced by successive generations.

Liu’s Constitutional philosophy pits him against Originalists such as Justice Scalia. Scalia believes in the adherence to the “original” meaning of the Constitution. He is concerned that those who adhere to Liu’s philosophy will advance Constitutional rights that are not set forth in the Constitution.

And more to the point:

M. Edward Whelan III, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, has written extensively about Liu’s record on his blog in the National Review online. Of Liu’s book, Whelan writes, “What Liu means by ‘keeping faith’ is evidently adherence to the living-constitutionalist gimmick that judges can redefine the Constitution to mean whatever they want it to mean.”

“Liu has all the makings of a hard-Left judicial activist,” says Whelan, “as shown by his positions on matters ranging from welfare rights to racial quotas to same-sex marriage and by his utterly lawless constitutional philosophy generally.”

By becoming a judge who holds this much power and holds it for a lifetime, he can also devote his time to making the Constitution irrelevant – by making it say whatever is desired by whatever power that holds the reigns of America at that point in time. The damage would be unprecedented and could undo our entire structure as the America that we have always known and loved.

Liu also sits on the board of the ultra-liberal American Constitution Society. Don’t let the name fool you – that is another leftist tactic. Liu, in my opinion, is also very clever in that he supports just a few conservative issues that lure some conservatives into his web of unconstitutionality. He has supported school vouchers and charter schools. Minor issues in the scheme of his overall goals and easily reversed when the time is right.

Professor Liu by all accounts is a brilliant man. However, he believes in numerous things that I find very disturbing. He also believes in redistributive mutual aid and the expansion of ‘rights’ provided by the government – read Education, Equality and National Citizenship (2006).

From Keeping Faith with the Constitution (2009):

“[C]onstitutional meaning is a function of both text and context. In many instances, a court cannot be faithful to the principle embodied in the text unless it takes into account the social context in which the text is interpreted. The relevant context includes not only social conditions and facts about the world, but also public values and social understandings as reflected in statutes, common law, and other parts of the legal landscape. ”

“The words and principles of the Constitution endure as our fundamental law because they have been made relevant to the conditions and challenges of each generation through an ongoing process of interpretation.”

In other words, Liu believes that the Constitution can mean whatever you want it to mean and that it is a ‘living, breathing document,’ not the stable foundation for charting America’s course that we have all believed in since its signing and implementation.

Liu should not be appointed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and he should certainly not sit on the Supreme Court. We need justices who believe in the Constitution and what it stands for, not what they can twist it into and how it can serve their whims. It is well past time to stop the radicalization of the Supreme Court and we need to prevent President Obama and his cohorts from seizing complete power over every branch of government. America’s survival depends on it.

Update: Power Line – What will Professor Liu give up?