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Dear Sonia, May I call you Sonia? We’ve just met but I feel I’ve known you forever, because of your “compelling story.” I’m an elderly, white male who’s a lawyer. But wait, I’m not that dull and dismissible. I’ve had my “story” moments. Remember that psychologists’ list of the ten worst things that can happen to a person? Losing your job, or house, getting divorced, going bankrupt, facing death, burying a child. You know, nasty stuff. I’ve been through almost everything on that list, some more than once. You pick yourself up and continue on as best you can. Big...

Harriet Miers has now withdrawn as a nominee for the Supreme Court. No one of the attacks against her would have been sufficient to cause withdrawal. Instead, she suffered the death of a thousand cuts. Who will be the new nominee, and how will she answer the inevitable attacks against her? Yes, “her.” I expect the President to nominate another woman to replace Justice O’Connor, whose resignation is conditional on confirmation of her replacement. Here’s my prediction of the new nominee’s opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee: Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee: We have now had, in short...

The Federal Judiciary Is A Spoiled Child, And Congress And The President Are The Pushover Parents That Spoiled It! By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon September 16, 2003 People today seem to think that the federal judiciary is the supreme law of the land. They are wrong! The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Just as the executive and legislative branches of government are bound to uphold the Constitution, so is the judicial branch. However, for too long now, the federal judiciary has assumed tyrannical tendencies. What liberal socialists could not do through...

No legal or political document is more slickly packaged yet more deceptively dangerous than the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Let's take care of something up front. No matter what its title, opposing CEDAW does not equal supporting discrimination against women. If that's the best CEDAW's supporters can come up with, they lose. A discussion this important requires something more grown-up than such knee-jerk nonsense. President Jimmy Carter signed CEDAW and submitted it to the Senate for ratification in 1980. In September 1994, on the eve of the GOP takeover, the Senate Foreign Relations...