Ignore Progressive Howling about the Supreme Court's Legitimacy
Henry Olsen The Washington Post
The Supreme Court in early U.S. history did not issue many decisions that determined which political faction prevailed. Indeed, it was not until 1857 that the court stepped into the political minefield with its outrageous ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford that no descendant of slaves could be an American citizen. Abraham Lincoln and other Republicans decried the decision and pledged to organize the court to ensure it was overturned. It took the Civil War to grant them that power.
Today’s 6-3 conservative majority is the result of a similar political mobilization to overturn that judicial philosophy. Most conservatives view that approach as wrong — and constitutionally illegitimate. The Federalist Society, of which I have been a proud member since 1987, considers that jurisprudence to be outcome-based rather than grounded in the Constitution and traditional rules of statutory construction. The conservative strategy — organizing politically to bring judicial doctrine in line with political philosophy — is exactly what all groups deeply disenchanted with the court’s direction have done since Dred Scott.
EPPC is seeking a full-time Director of Communications to oversee all external communications via earned and owned media channels. This role requires strategic expertise to ensure that all communications efforts align with EPPC’s mission and advance our priorities, as well as the tactical skills to execute this work on a day-to-day basis. It also requires the ability to synthesize the variety of work produced by our many scholars and programs into a cohesive story that reinforces EPPC’s identity as an institution.
In May, EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson gave a lecture at the Ave Maria School of Law’s conference “John Paul II’s Natural Law Legacy & International Human Rights.” Ryan spoke about John Paul II, natural law, human rights, and his encyclical on the Gospel of Life.
Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing was recently reviewed in the Washington Free Beacon. Nicholas Tomaino praised EPPC Scholars Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis' work as
"A playbook...for how to think about abortion and how to correct the talking points that are offered in service of it. Indeed, the book dispenses with established and widely accepted narratives and reveals to the reader the infrastructure and work of the pro-life movement. In so doing, it brings to life a world that is typically only caricatured or maligned."
