Obama is trying to pack courts with far-left judges who are hiding their fringe opinions from the public and congressional oversight. Front and center is 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Goodwin Liu.

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Obama is trying to pack courts with far-left judges who are hiding their fringe opinions from the public and congressional oversight. Front and center is 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Goodwin Liu.

Just as now-Justice Sonia Sotomayor performed during her confirmation hearings, Mr. Liu did verbal backflips while trying to escape his own past writings and speeches during confirmation hearings on Friday. His rhetorical gymnastics and the worrisome substance he was trying to escape merit greater attention in coming weeks. For now, there is one subject area that does not allow shades of gray and on which his flips can’t obfuscate his unacceptable views. That topic is the trendy leftist belief that foreign law should be consulted in interpreting the U.S. Constitution. It’s a profoundly wrongheaded notion.

“The use of foreign authority in American constitutional law is a judicial practice that has been very controversial in recent years,” Mr. Liu wrote in the Daito Law Review in 2006. “The U.S. Supreme Court has cited foreign authority in cases limiting the death penalty and invalidating criminal laws against homosexual sodomy, among others. The resistance to this practice is difficult for me to grasp, since the United States can hardly claim to have a monopoly on wise solutions to common legal problems faced by constitutional democracies around the world.”

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