Radio Live: 4/26/17 | Judicial Activism Against Trump, Argument Against Con Con

Hosts Ed Martin and Cherilyn Eagar are joined by John and Andy Schlafly today as we talk about their latest column "100 Reasons to Celebrate Trump's First 100 Days," the latest in judicial activism against Trump, and the latest news on efforts for a new Constitutional Convention.

Radio Live: 4/12/17 Alex Newman On Syria, Andy Schlafly on Column, ConCon

Hosts Ed Martin and Cherilyn Eagar talk with author and writer Alex Newman about our foreign policy in Syria and what comes next. Andy Schlafly weighs in on the Fourth Circuit "lawyering up" against Trump and an update on a Constitutional Convention.

Convention of States Misleads Conservatives

The campaign for a new constitutional convention masquerades under the misleading slogan Convention of States. This falsely implies that states can exert some measure of control over the agenda, rules, or apportionment of a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution. In fact, all such powers are reserved to Congress or to the convention itself.

States Are Rejecting a ‘Horrible Idea’

Most state legislatures are now in regular session, and there’s no shortage of important work to be done at the state level. Yet many state legislatures are wasting precious time on a scheme to change the U.S. Constitution by calling for a national convention.

4/3/17 | Article V ConCon, World Affairs Brief, Can the Swamp Be Drained?

Hosts Ed Martin and Cherilyn Eagar touch on policy from the state level to geo-politics. Andy Schlafly brings an action alert on killing a Constitutional Convention, Joel Skousen talks about the subway blast in Russia and a World Affairs Brief, and what now after RyanCare fails?

Celebrating Fifty Years of the Phyllis Schlafly Report: We Want “Pledges Kept,” Not “Promises Broken”

The Constitution of the United States serves many purposes in our republic. One of the main advantages of a written constitution is that it protects Americans from the whims of changing elected officials. A written constitution gives us an anchor on which to base our expectations for our federal government. Similarly, the long-lost art of the party platform should be an anchor by which we place reasonable expectations on elected officials of a political party. If the party claimed by a politician is conservative, it is a reasonable expectation that the politician himself should be conservative. Phyllis Schlafly turned this concept from analogy to reality with her June and September 1971 Phyllis Schlafly Reports. When an elected official turns his back on the party platform he campaigned on, he puts himself at incredible risk of alienating his voting base.

Check and Balance Judicial Supremacy

Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary “the least dangerous branch.” He wrote those words long before judicial supremacists began redefining marriage. But Hamilton and his fellow Founding Fathers gave us valuable tools to limit the damage, and we ought to use them now. In our system of checks and balances, judges do not have the final say. President Andrew Jackson recognized this fact when he said about the then chief justice, “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.” Abraham Lincoln had a similar response to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case. He told the country we should not submit to the dictates of “that eminent tribunal.” Both of those Presidents understood that the judiciary is only one of three branches of government. Its duty is to interpret the Constitution, not rewrite it. Jackson and Lincoln both knew that enforcement was ultimately up to the people.

Lesson of the Articles of Confederation

What was the government in the United States before the U.S. Constitution? It was the Articles of Confederation, ratified by the States on this day – March 1 – in 1781. Signed by such statesmen as John Hancock and Samuel Adams, it was an attempt to loosely knit the thirteen States together. The Articles of Confederation declared: “The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare.”