David Souter’s Departure
On his 100th day in office, President Barack Obama started campaigning for reelection in 2012. He went to a small town in Missouri, a red state he didn’t carry last year, and boasted that “we’ve begun the work of remaking America.”
Continue reading →Ginsburg’s Judicial Activism Goes International
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is credited with writing several feminist precepts into U.S. constitutional law based on the spurious notion that our Constitution is a “living” (i.e., re-interpretable) document, she now wants to expand that process to welcome foreign law.
Continue reading →Yes, Marriage Can Be Saved From the Gay Lobby
Since the April defeats for traditional marriage in the Iowa Supreme Court, the Vermont legislature, and the Washington, D.C. city council, Americans in the other 48 states are quietly stress-testing their legal defenses against the spread of legalized same-sex marriage.
Continue reading →The Court’s One-Two Punch
Dwight Eisenhower reportedly admitted that he made two big mistakes as President: his two appointments to the Supreme Court, Earl Warren and William Brennan.
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One Brave Judge Resists Feminist Agenda
A New Jersey judge recently confronted an issue that courts have been avoiding for years: are restraining orders constitutional? Accused criminals have “due process” and many other constitutional rights, but the feminists have persuaded many judges to issue orders that restrain actions of non-criminals and punish them based on flimsy, unproved accusations.
Continue reading →Lessons of The Gun Decision
The liberals are trying to spin the Supreme Court’s dramatic decision in the gun case as creating a “new” constitutional right.
Continue reading →Judicial Supremacy Strikes in Oklahoma
The elected representatives in Oklahoma passed a law to stem the tide of illegal aliens and, faster than you can say “judicial supremacy,” a federal judge blocked its enforcement.
Continue reading →Stunning Victory Against Judicial Supremacy
The media have been telling us to watch the gun-control case now before the U.S. Supreme Court, where we await a decision about Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
Continue reading →Kansas Plans to Shake Up State Court Judges
Kansas will have a proposition on the ballot in November that could send shock waves into the tenure of state court judges.
Continue reading →Ben Stein Provokes the Liberals’ Wrath
Ben Stein is known to many as an actor on Comedy Central. But the funniest part about his latest movie called “Expelled” is not any clever lines spoken by Stein but the hysterical way the liberals are trying to discourage people from seeing it.
Continue reading →Violent Video Games Held to be Free Speech
Extremely violent video games have become the dangerous obsession of a significant portion of our youth, and several towns and states have passed ordinances intended to prevent minors from buying or viewing them.
Continue reading →Judges Getting the Message About Illegal Aliens
Four children including two brothers were killed, and 12 others were hospitalized with injuries, in Minnesota last week when a van reportedly ignored a stop sign and barreled into a school bus. The driver of the van, who did not speak English or have a valid driver’s license, was charged with homicide.
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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.”
