Thomas Jipping
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Biden DOJ Is Wrong: Federal Law Bars Mailing Abortion Drugs
Most abortions today aren’t performed surgically. Rather, the growing majority result from taking drugs designed to induce abortion. President Biden’s Food and Drug Administration has been dropping long-standing safety restrictions on those drugs, including the requirement that they be obtained directly from a health care provider. → Read More
A Judge Turns Abortion Advocate, Part One
On March 30, 2022, the Justice Department announced the indictment of nine individuals for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE). → Read More
The Constitution Created the District of Columbia and Only the Constitution Can Make It a State
The campaign to convert most of the District of Columbia into a state began in the 1960s and remains active today. On April 22, 2021, the House of Representatives voted 216–208 along party lines to pass H.R. 51, the “Washington, D.C. Admission Act.” → Read More
The Left Abuses State Constitutions for More Than Protecting Abortion Rights
Abortion advocates are setting their sights on the states after the Supreme Court last year declared that the U.S. Constitution “does not confer a right to abortion.” They are not only attacking pro-life laws under state constitutions, but they are also trying to change those charters to explicitly protect abortion. → Read More
Two Recent Supreme Court Decisions Give Pro-Lifers Chances to Stand for the Unborn
Two recent court decisions, on abortion and gender identity, not only demonstrate that judges are in the middle of the cultural fray but also point out where people concerned about these issues must focus. → Read More
Biden Justice Department Dishonestly Rewrites Law Against Sending Abortion Drugs by Mail
The Biden administration keeps coming up with new tactics to keep abortions happening. The latest is Justice Department advice to the U.S. Postal Service that a federal law prohibiting using the mail to send abortion drugs doesn’t mean what it says. → Read More
Idaho Supreme Court Refuses to “Read Fundamental Right to Abortion” Into State Constitution
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court held in June that the U.S. Constitution “does not confer a right to abortion” and, therefore, abortion advocates will be challenging pro-life laws in state courts under state constitutions. → Read More
South Carolina Supreme Court Strikes Down State’s “Heartbeat” Abortion Law
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday narrowly decided that the state’s ban on most abortions after six weeks violated the state constitution. Since the U.S. Supreme Court in June correctly held that the U.S. Constitution “does not confer a right to abortion,” attacks on legal protection for the unborn have shifted to state courts and state constitutions. → Read More
The Attack on Legal Protection for the Unborn Moves to State Courts
In Roe v. Wade,REF the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 created a constitutional right to abortion and issued rules for implementing it that invalidated the pro-life laws of all 50 states. As a result, abortion advocates went to federal court to challenge laws protecting the unborn that legislatures continued to enact. → Read More
Judicial Appointments in the 117th Congress
The 117th Congress has finished its work, putting the judicial-appointment process on hold until the next Congress begins on January 3, 2023. Here’s a judicial-confirmation recap. You can also check the Judicial Appointment Tracker, which is regularly updated and provides current and comparative data for the previous six presidencies on seven features of the appointment process. → Read More
Can the Fourteenth Amendment Be Used to Protect Human Life Before Birth?
Abortion: A Historical Overview Legislatures began protecting the lives of human beings in the womb long before American independence.REF During the 19th century, leading feminists such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton condemned abortion as “child murder,”REF and the American Medical Association launched a national campaign to combat the “unwarrantable destruction of human… → Read More
President Biden’s Questionable Authority To “Forgive” Student Debt
“Good intentions,” said Sen. Daniel Webster (Whig-Mass.) in a March 1837 speech, “will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.” The Constitution does this by limiting the powers of each branch of government to prevent too much power from ending up in too few… → Read More
Following What and How the Supreme Court Does Its Work
The Supreme Court’s new term began on the first Monday of October. As I write this, the Court has agreed to consider about 25 cases and will add about 40-50 more in the coming months. The Justices will hear arguments in these cases until the end of April, and announce decisions by the end of June. While the judicial branch in general, and the Supreme Court in particular, have become more… → Read More
Judicial Independence Is an Obstacle To Power, Necessary for Liberty
“Those who cannot remember the past,” wrote philosopher George Santayana, “are condemned to repeat it.” Ignorance of the past is bad enough, but current attempts to politicize our courts are a deliberate attempt to compromise the judicial independence that America’s founders said is “peculiarly essential” for the liberty we have enjoyed. → Read More
40 Years Later, the Left Goes to Court in Dubious Bid to Resurrect, Ratify Bygone ERA
Under Article V of the Constitution, two-thirds of Congress can propose constitutional amendments and, after 50 years of trying, sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states in March 1972 with a seven-year ratification deadline. → Read More
Supreme Court’s Major Decisions Have Positive Impact (For a Change)
The Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term is certainly one for the history books. The number of cases the Court handles continues to decline, making several cases with outsized attention and impact really stand out. → Read More
Supreme Court Hands Short-Term Win to Pride Group, but Encourages Yeshiva University to Return
Another conflict is brewing between the constitutional right to freely exercise religion and the civil right to be free from discrimination. Like several such cases in recent years, the Supreme Court is likely—or so we hope—to decide this one favorably in the end. → Read More
Since When Does Freedom From Discrimination Require Destroying Religious Freedom?
An op-ed Wednesday in The Washington Post laid out how the left is attempting to dismantle what Congress once unanimously recognized as “undergirdthe very origin and existence of the United States”: religious freedom. → Read More
DOJ Attacks Pro-Life States With Bogus “Preemption” Argument
The Biden administration is using a spurious legal argument to crack down on states limiting abortion. On Aug. 2, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against the state of Idaho, hoping to undermine its new law prohibiting most abortions by claiming that it conflicts with a federal law regarding medical treatment in hospital emergency rooms. → Read More
Abortion Advocates Launch New Strategies To Keep Abortions Going
The Supreme Court may have acknowledged that the U.S. Constitution does not stand in the way of legislatures protecting babies before birth, but abortion advocates are launching new strategies to keep those babies at risk. The latest is a lawsuit, filed on August 2 by the U.S. Department of Justice, alleging that Idaho’s pro-life law conflicts with a federal law guaranteeing access to emergency… → Read More