Left-leaning law professor Mark Tushnet recently penned the piece “Abandoning Defensive Crouch Liberal Constitutionalism,” where he revels in the left’s growing dominance of the U.S. court system and advises his fellow liberals to go on the offensive using the legal system to push through their agenda. With the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, he explains, “those judges no longer have to be worried about reversal by the Supreme Court if they take aggressively liberal positions.”

Scalia’s death did cause a significant shift in the balance of power, giving the left four liberals against three conservatives and one swing vote on the high court. However, liberal dominance of the U.S. legal system hasn’t been an overnight thing. The left has been gradually taking over much of the nation’s judicial system for decades.

USA Today reported in 2013 that the number of federal judges appointed by Democratic presidents finally overtook the number appointed by Republicans — and this doesn’t even take into consideration another factor. Democratic presidents and governors are more likely to appoint partisan judges to the bench than Republicans are, a long-running discrepancy that has led to a marked imbalance of partisan Democratic judges.

Accompanying this trend has been an increase in Democrat prosecutors. The Department of Justice has steadily hired more and more left-leaning lawyers, and local prosecutors’ offices around the country also are tilting more to the left.

Combined, the two demographic changes are stacking the odds in favor of the left when it comes to the third branch of government. If the left can’t get legislation passed, or can’t get the executive branch to implement what they want, they can get it done with lawsuits and activist judges.

The Washington Post observes, “Thanks to a wealth of recent Democratic appointments on the lower courts, letting the Supreme Court go down to eight justices would favor liberals.” More of the cases appealed to SCOTUS will be ones decided by these liberal justices, and in the case of a 4-4 deadlock, the lower court position is upheld. Democratic-appointee-dominated circuit courts cover two-thirds of the U.S. population, the paper reports. Nine circuits are now dominated by Democratic appointments and only four by Republicans.

Tushnet says the left’s “defensive-crouch constitutionalism” needs to be replaced with something that sounds like Alinsky tactics carried out in the courts.

Tushnet is so confident, he writes, “F*** Anthony Kennedy,” since with Justice Scalia’s passing, the left no longer needs to worry about the Supreme Court’s swing voter. Tushnet gloats, “The culture wars are over; they lost, we won.” He advises, “My own judgment is that taking a hard line (‘You lost, live with it’) is better than trying to accommodate the losers.”

Another tactic he recommends is to “aggressively exploit the ambiguities and loopholes in unfavorable precedents that aren’t worth overruling … Play the ‘sometimes’ for all its worth.”

He instructs the left to start compiling a list of SCOTUS cases they want overturned; he recommends first hitting affirmative action, campaign finance and abortion.

A Rasmussen Reports poll earlier this month found that 54 percent of likely U.S. voters believe that judges let their politics control their decisions. Tushnet apparently not only believes it, he wants more and more of it.