Judicial Supremacy Strikes in Oklahoma, 6-11-08

The elected representatives in Oklahoma passed a law to stem the tide of illegal immigrants and, faster than you can say “judicial supremacy,” a federal judge blocked its enforcement. The court suspended key sections of the law even before it was due to take effect on July 1.

OFB.biz, 6-11-08

The ACLU v. Good Judges, 5-28-08

Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum believes appointing the right federal and local judges is more important than electing members of Congress or the President. In a forum last week, they explained why.

HumanEvents.com, 5-28-08

Eagle Forum: Supremacist Judges Overturn CA Legislature and Rule in Favor of Gay Marriage

WASHINGTON, May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eagle Forum, a leading pro-family organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly, condemns the activist decision of the California Supreme Court which ruled 4-3 that state laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are discriminatory and unconstitutional. The case, Lockyer v. City and County of San Francisco (2004), was brought by about two dozen same-sex couples and the city of San Francisco.

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Schlafly Says Judges Are Still the Problem

“Liberals in this country know that they don’t have the hearts of the American people…so their game plan is to take their issues to the courts,” said Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly last Thursday afternoon.

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Reclaiming the Constitution

Today, January 22, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators will march in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building as part of a day-long protest of the legally protected "right" of abortion created and decreed by said court 35 years ago today.

Another, perhaps smaller, number will demonstrate on the other side of the "abortion rights" controversy, standing in front of the same building, demanding that abortion remain "safe and legal." The irony will be lost on most demonstrators and perhaps even some of the justices inside. So many people, seeking either a change in the "law of the land" or wishing to preserve unaltered one of its provisions, will visibly direct their respective pleas to the judicial, rather than the legislative, branch of our government.

It reminds me of a cartoon I saw many yeas ago, in which a child comes home from school and informs his dumbfounded parents that "Today, we learned how the Supreme Court makes a law." Funny, huh? But the sad truth is that the Supreme Court has the Congress and the legislatures of 50 states straightjacketed in submission to a judicial tyranny that the anti-Federalists feared and Federalists could scarcely imagine at the beginning of our republic.

Read Jack Kenny's entire column at LewRockwell.com, 1-22-08.

The Courts and the Culture War, VII

Read Eagle Forum's Court Watch update on The Courts and the Culture War, VII

During this year of 2007, our Briefings and Commentaries have emphasized the weighty obligation which we Americans have of asking tough philosophical questions of judicial nominees, of those responsible for their selection, and of any officials who may influence court decisions. To prepare ourselves for the effective exercise of this duty, we have been ranging across the gamut of general philosophy, legal philosophy, and constitutional philosophy.

The Courts and the Culture War, V

"Dogma [theory] is the most important part of the law, as the architect is the most important person in the building of a house." So declared early Twentieth Century U. S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In this Briefing and Commentary, we will continue to examine the theoretical foundations of the Culture War engulfing America. We turn our attention today to America's constitutional theory which is, of course, based on the deeper levels of theory that we have addressed in previous issues. This theory occupies Level 3 on the worldview diagram which has been central to all our discussions of the courts and the Culture War. Here we will address the first two of the six major issues of constitutional theory, presenting an explanation of the issue and quotations by advocates of both the Judeo-Christian and Humanistic worldviews. These issues have become increasingly visible, as America's Humanistic judges have become more bold in attacking America's Judeo-Christian foundations. Court Watch, Aug. 15, 2007

The Courts and the Culture War, III

"Yesterday we suffered from crimes; today we suffer from laws." So wrote Tacitus, the great Roman historian of the First and Second Centuries, A.D. The same lament can be uttered for America today, where we suffer from the edicts of Humanistic judges, whose runaway rulings have eroded our Constitution and our culture. Court Watch, 5-15-07