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Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee has the pleasure of holding a 9^th Circuit judicial nomination hearing on Barack Obama …. Oops … we meant Goodwin Liu. It’s easy to make that mistake because Liu has made it clear that he would use the Federal bench to enact a host of liberal programs that Obama favors.

Goodwin Liu’s beliefs place him far outside the mainstream. His statements and writings regard the Constitution as merely a set of guidelines to follow, adaptable and malleable to the whims of a few. He has even gone so far as to call for interpreting the Constitution so broadly give Citizens rights to “expanded health insurance, child care, transportation subsidies, job training, and a robust earned income tax credit.”

Transportation subsidies were certainly not a part of the Founders’ vision for our country, but Liu looks at his nomination to the Federal bench not as an opportunity to serve as a fair and impartial judge, but as an “opportunity to actually get [his] ideas and the progressive vision of the constitution and of law and policy into practice.” That’s right: “Judge” Liu on the 9^th Circuit would work to short-circuit our democracy by legislating from the bench and help protect President Obama’s liberal agenda of government takeovers from the serious constitutional challenges they face.

With many on the left and in the media hinting that getting Goodwin Liu on the 9^th Circuit is only the first step towards putting him on the Supreme Court, that makes today’s hearing and keeping him off the bench all the more important. For more information of Liu, check out our research briefing here.