Tuesday, May 10, 2005

The Fight For The Nation's Courts


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Titled, Business Week - Inside Bush's Supreme Team: In Fight for the Courts, Behind-the-Scenes Players Are Uniting the Right, this article has been in the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) website for some time now (April 25, 2005). We deemed it good to feature it here today as it is, to our view, a good account of how the forces are lining up in this looming battle of colossal proportions for vacant positions in the courts of the land.

Here's a quote:
With a Supreme Court vacancy all but certain this year, true-blue liberals, rabid-red conservatives, and activists of every stripe are amassing millions of dollars and mobilizing thousands of true believers for an air and ground war expected to eclipse every other legislative issue on the congressional agenda -- including Social Security and tax reform. Already the ideological struggle over the high court and the federal appellate bench has squelched scholarly discourse on jurisprudence...

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Our aim is to inform. Nevertheless, we urge prayer in behalf of the Senate and the Judiciary. Pray for God's wisdom to be upon the senators so that they will do what is right not from the point of view of their ideologies but from the point of view of God. Pray that in the process, the Judiciary will be populated with God-fearing judges who will interpret the law according to the letter of the constitution of the land and not according to their own personal agenda.