Judicial Books

Supreme Chaos: The Politics of Judicial Confirmation and the Culture War
By Charles Willis Pickering

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Charles Willis Pickering

The judicial confirmation process is in a state of chaos. America’s culture war has set the stage for a power struggle reaching to the highest court in the land-the Supreme Court. Integrity and ability are no longer the criteria for evaluating the caliber of a judge. Rather it is one’s position on hot-button social issues. Without control of the White House, the House, or the Senate, the Left looks to liberal activist judges rather than to the American voters or their elected representatives to create new rights. Americans who believe in the rule of law must understand and challenge the liberal notion of a “living Constitution,” which has politicized the judiciary and provoked today’s confirmation battles. We are witnessing not only the testing of the judicial nomination system but a downward spiral in civility within the U.S. Senate. Nominees endure partisan conflict rather than a dignified and respectful legislative process. Liberal special-interest groups degrade confirmation proceedings into bitter character assassinations that malign the reputations of nominees. During his confirmation process, Judge Charles Pickering waited years to be confirmed and was ultimately forced into retirement by a Democrat minority unwilling to give him the decency of an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. In Supreme Chaos, Judge Pickering, who faced unprecedented use of the filibuster by Senate Democrats, provides an insightful assessment of the situation and argues that we must find a way out of the quagmire for the sake of the judiciary, our children and grandchildren, and the rights of all Americans. Pickering’s vision of a repaired confirmation process offers hope that restored from the chaos-that justice under the rule of law as established in the Constitution will prevail.

The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land
By Andrew P. Napolitano

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Andrew P. Napolitano

The Constitution permits Congress to regulate interstate commerce which, as Fox News analyst Judge Napolitano proves, has opened the floodgates of federal abuse, as the government trounces on state and individual rights, expanding its reach far beyond what the Framers intended. With no-nonsense clarity, Napolitano shows that Congress has "purchased" regulations by bribing states-giving huge amounts of taxpayer dollars on condition that states enact regulations of human behavior that Congress prefers but cannot legislate. Tapping into the intense distrust of activist judges, Napolitano also explains how the Supreme Court has devised historically inaccurate, logically inconsistent, and even laughable justifications to approve what Congress has done.

Paul I. Weizer	Andrew P. Napolitano

Phyllis Schlafly	Walter K. Olson

Walter K. Olson	Richard J. Maybury

Kenneth W. Starr	Frederic Bastiat

Peter William Huber	Peter William Huber

Dr. Edwin Vieira Jr.

Russell Kirk

Kevin A. Ring

Antonin Scalia

David Limbaugh

John W. Dean

Paul Craig Roberts

Mark Fuhrman

William J. Federer Mark Sutherland

Mark R. Levin

Robert H. Dierker Jr.