President Obama is on a mission to fill the nation’s highest courts with activist judges who will rubber stamp his liberal agenda.
His latest candidate is Georgetown Law professor and self-proclaimed “liberal” Pamela Harris. Right now, Senators are considering confirming her to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals where she would have a lifetime appointment to interpret the Constitution in her own image.
In fact, that’s exactly what she’s said she’d do. Speaking on a panel in 2009, Harris said, “my own best reading of the Constitution, it’s pretty close to where I am. Because I think the Constitution is a profoundly progressive document…” Harris has declared that the Constitution ought to take its meaning from her favored social movements instead of what the framers intended. “Yes, the values, the principles, on some level of generality, are there at the beginning,” Harris said on another panel in 2008, “but they take their meaning-and they should take their meaning-from what comes after.”
This politicized view of the federal bench in which courts bend to the fashions of social movements shows a profound misunderstanding of the limited powers of a federal judge and usurps what should be the role of our elected representatives.
Urge your Senators to oppose confirmation of Pamela Harris to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Given her disrespect for the Founder’s intent in the Constitution and her politicized view of the judiciary, there is little doubt Harris would use her judicial powers to advance her own personal agenda.
