Can Congress Limit Federal Court Jurisdiction?
One of the Senators’ lines of questioning of Judge Samuel Alito that lacked follow-up concerned the power of Congress to define the jurisdiction of federal courts.
Continue reading →Feminists’ Double Standards About Child Care
When the feminist movement burst onto the American social scene in the 1970s, the rallying cry was “liberation.” The feminists demanded liberation from the role of the housewife and mother who lived in what Betty Friedan famously labeled a “comfortable concentration camp.”
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Judge’s Unintelligent Rant Against Design
Judge John E. Jones III could still be Chairman of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board if millions of evangelical Christians had not pulled the lever for George W. Bush in 2000. Yet this federal judge, who owes his position entirely to those voters and the Bush who appointed him, stuck the knife in the backs of those who brought him to the dance in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
Continue reading →Courts Hit Parents With Triple Whammy
Federal judges have just hit parents with a triple-whammy. Two appellate courts held that parents have no right to stop offensive, privacy-invading interrogation of their own children in public schools, and in a third case the Supreme Court indicated that it is not going to do anything to protect parents’ rights concerning schools.
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Judicial Supremacists Lash Out at Parents
When Hillary Clinton proclaimed that it takes a village to raise a child, many people didn’t realize that she was enunciating liberal dogma that the government should raise and control children.
Continue reading →Judicial Supremacists Lash Out At Parents
When Hillary Clinton proclaimed that it takes a village to raise a child, many people didn’t realize that she was enunciating liberal dogma that the government should raise and control children.
Continue reading →Coming Crackup Of Conservatives? No Way
Howard Fineman of Newsweek looked into his crystal ball and proclaimed the coming crackup of the conservative movement.
Continue reading →Questions About Miers For President Bush
If John G. Roberts’ confirmation hearing is any guide, we won’t learn anything from Harriet Miers’ confirmation hearing.
Continue reading →High Stakes in Judicial Supremacy
The histrionics of the liberals about the impending nomination to fill the Supreme Court vacancy look overwrought, but they are heartfelt. The liberals know they’ve lost the legislative and executive branches of government, and their only hope of achieving their goals is from supremacist judges who claim the authority to legislate the law of the land.
Continue reading →Thank You, William Rehnquist
William Rehnquist was the most unlikely of appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Continue reading →Isn’t Turnabout Fair Play?
Hypocrisy stands at the pinnacle of the sins that the liberals most disdain. So it’s fair game to compare the free ride they gave to Ruth Bader Ginsburg with their searching the archives to pillory every word ever written by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.
Continue reading →High Stakes In Judicial Supremacy
The histrionics of the liberals about the impending nomination to fill the Supreme Court vacancy look overwrought, but they are heartfelt.
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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.”
