Court Watch Is Watching the Gorsuch Nomination
Virginia Armstrong made a few comments that participants seemed to appreciate and also offered some information easily accessible on the Internet.
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Eagle Forum Applauds Gorsuch Selection
Eagle Forum sincerely thanks President Trump for keeping his promise to nominate an exceptionally qualified jurist who has a record of applying the Constitution as the Framers intended, not as it suits his own policy preferences.
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Feminists Can’t Get Over Clarence Thomas
Most people would get over a defeat that occurred nearly 25 years ago, but feminists hold grudges forever. They continue to rage against Justice Clarence Thomas’s routing of them at his 1991 confirmation hearings, where he beat liberals at their own game, surviving a media ambush that would have destroyed any mere mortal.
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America’s ‘Last Chance’
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, where the first ballots for the next president were cast, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has not endorsed a candidate, gave a round of interviews declaring that 2016 “is the last chance for the American people to take back control of their government. . . .
Continue reading →Justice Scalia’s Untimely Death Should Wake Up Congress
The passing of Justice Antonin Scalia is a terrible loss for our Nation, and a reason for Republicans to rethink their approach to the judicial branch of our government.
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Judicial Tyranny in Kentucky
When the Supreme Court ruled by the narrowest possible margin that Kentucky’s definition of marriage is unconstitutional, the Court’s decision was qualified by its assurance that religious freedom would not be jeopardized. “The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection,” the Court solemnly intoned on June 26.
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Judicial Supremacy Imprisons Christian Woman Unjustly
St. Louis, MO: Phyllis Schlafly, Founder and CEO of Eagle Forum, released this statement today following a judge’s order to jail Kim Davis, the County Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky.
Continue reading →Schlafly Praises RNC Resolutions on Judges, Planned Parenthood, Religious Liberty
Phyllis Schlafly, conservative icon and Chairman of Eagle Forum, offered praise this week to the Republican National Committee after their passage of several good resolutions at last week’s 2015 Summer Meeting. Three particular resolutions were noteworthy: on defunding Planned Parenthood, protecting Religious Liberty, and condemning Judicial Activism from the bench.
Continue reading →How Congress Should Respond to Justice Kennedy
Justice Kennedy’s opinion for a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court has rightly been condemned for its lack of grounding in the Constitutional text he is sworn to uphold. Unable to find gay marriage in either the due process clause or the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Kennedy ultimately rests his case on what Justice Clarence Thomas sarcastically called the “dignity clause” of the Constitution.
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Tell the Supreme Court to Leave Traditional Marriage Alone
The U.S. Supreme Court is just days away from deciding whether homosexual couples are entitled to marriage. The Justices’ ruling will become the law of the land and could redefine two centuries of marriage law in America.
Continue reading →Judicial Supremacists vs. ‘We, the People’
Republican Party platforms have frequently stressed the central importance of the traditional family based on a married husband and wife, because that is the only way to achieve a self-reliant, self-supporting economic unit that minimizes the need for a welfare state.
Continue reading →No Wonder Obama Won’t Let Us Read TPP
On Friday, Congress disrupted President Obama’s plan for a sweeping transfer of U.S. sovereignty to an unaccountable group of foreign busybodies. Hurray for the stalwart Americans who resisted the demands of Obama, the Republican leadership, and the big-donor claque, but Speaker Boehner plans to give Congress another chance this week to make this dangerous mistake.
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The Supremacists
By Phyllis Schlafly (revised and expanded edition published in 2006) The complete text of this basic book on the courts, with questions for discussion.
Schlafly says activist judges are new conservative target
Calling the U.S. Supreme Court “the most powerful branch of government,” conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly said that grassroots conservatives who have focused on family and social issues are setting their sights next on reforming America’s “imperial judiciary.”
