07/05/05

With the first Supreme Court vacancy in over a decade, both the professional activists of the Beltway right and red-state grassroots conservatives are spoiling for a fight. It's not just constitutionalists and conservative legal theorists. Social conservatives, the largest single constituency on the right, understand as never before that their agenda depends on the composition of the federal judiciary. Same-sex marriage, religion in the public square and especially abortion are all issues where President Bush and congressional Republicans can only tinker at the margins. But, through a combination of judicial usurpation and the acquiescence of the elected branches, the Supreme Court wields the power to shape national policy on each of them...

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4439.html

from Intellectual Conservative, by W. James Antle III


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp