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EPPC Amicus Brief in Proposition 8 Marriage Appeal
By Edward Whelan
Posted: Friday, September 24, 2010
In an amicus brief filed in the Ninth Circuit, EPPC President Ed Whelan surveys Judge Vaughn Walker's remarkable course of misconduct in the Proposition 8 case and concludes that the inescapable explanation for that misconduct is that Walker harbors a deep-seated animus against traditional marriage and has been unwilling or unable to contain his animus. [Read More]

EPPC President Ed Whelan's Testimony on Kagan Nomination
By Edward Whelan
Posted: Friday, July 16, 2010
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, EPPC President Ed Whelan critiqued Senate Democrats' flimsy attacks on the Roberts Court and explained that "any sober assessment of the current reality and future risk of judicial activism provides further compelling reason to vote against the Kagan nomination." [Read More]

The Record of Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor
By Edward Whelan
Posted: Tuesday, June 9, 2009
In a series of posts on National Review Online's Bench Memos blog, EPPC President Ed Whelan is addressing the record of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. [Read More]

Harold Koh's Transnationalism
A Collection of Posts on the State Department Legal Adviser Nominee
By Edward Whelan
Posted: Tuesday, May 5, 2009
In a series of posts on National Review Online's Bench Memos blog that earned prominent attention, EPPC President Ed Whelan exposed the radical transnationalist views of controversial State Department legal adviser nominee Harold Koh. [Read More]

Overturning Roe
By Edward Whelan
Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007
After a brief education about what Roe v. Wade really means, public support for overturning Roe and restoring abortion policy to the democratic processes dramatically increases. That's what a recent poll jointly commissioned by the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Judicial Confirmation Network shows. [Read More]

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Green Bag Honors EPPC Amicus Brief

The Green Bag has bestowed its award for Exemplary Legal Writing for 2005 on EPPC's amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court defending the presence of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Texas capitol. Congratulations and thanks to Mark A. Perry, Daniel J. Davis, Ryan P. Meyers, and Dustin K. Palmer, all of the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, for their outstanding work. This EPPC brief was one of only two briefs to receive this award.

Recent Events

The Next Supreme Court Vacancy
Lessons from the Roberts and Alito Confirmation Processes
Mar 14, 2006

Two leading commentators on the Roberts and Alito nominations, EPPC President Ed Whelan and New Republic legal affairs editor Jeffrey Rosen, explored what lessons can be drawn from the successful confirmations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. If President Bush has the opportunity to nominate another Supreme Court justice, how can the Administration best apply those lessons in order to achieve another victory? How can opponents wage a more effective campaign against a future Bush nominee? Washington Post reporter Charles Lane, one of the nation's best Supreme Court reporters, moderated the discussion. Audio of this event is now available.

Justice Antonin Scalia Launches EPPC Lecture Series
Supreme Court Justice speaks on "The Courts and Democracy"
Sep 20, 2004

What is the appropriate role of the federal judiciary in our republic? What would the Framers of the Constitution think of today's activist judges? Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia helped launch EPPC's Fall 2004 lecture series with remarks on "The Courts and Democracy."

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Blogging on the Courts

EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.

Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog has said, "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."

The views expressed by EPPC scholars in their work are their individual views only and are not to be imputed to EPPC as an institution.
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