The HHS Contraception Mandate vs. the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Posted: Monday, January 30, 2012
The Obama administration's mandate that employer-provided health-insurance plans cover contraceptives and abortifacients is a clearcut violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.  [Full Story]

Defend Our Laws: Justice Matters

Posted: Thursday, August 25, 2011
As conservatives begin sorting through the field of Republican presidential candidates, it's important to assess how the candidates form their positions on selecting Supreme Court justices and directing the Department of Justice.  [Full Story]

Can Marriage Be Saved?

Posted: Monday, July 25, 2011
The more confusion there is about the mission of marriage, the less well marriage will perform its critical mission. And the millions and millions of victims of a broken marriage culture—children born into unstable or nonexistent families—will continue to pile up, with all the attendant disastrous consequences.  [Full Story]

Senate Testimony on Defending Marriage

Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Far from respecting marriage, the mistitled "Respect for Marriage Act of 2011" would empty the term of any core content. Legislators who genuinely want to respect marriage should defend traditional marriage, not undermine it.  [Full Story]

Disclosure Delayed Is Justice Denied
The judge who threw out Prop 8 should have been disqualified.
Posted: Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Former judge Vaughn Walker's recent revelation that he has been in a same-sex relationship for the past ten years means that he should have disqualified himself from taking part in the anti-Prop 8 case—and that his judgment in that case should be vacated.  [Full Story]

House of Representatives Testimony on Defending Marriage

Posted: Friday, April 15, 2011
Testifying in the House of Representatives, EPPC President Ed Whelan criticized the Obama administration's recent decision to abandon defending—or, more precisely, to abandon even pretending to defend—the federal Defense of Marriage Act.  [Full Story]

Should Supreme Court proceedings be televised? No

Posted: Friday, January 14, 2011
There is very little to be gained—and much at risk of being lost—from televising Supreme Court proceedings.  [Full Story]

Ninth Circuit Nominee Goodwin Liu

Posted: Thursday, January 13, 2011
In an essay on National Review Online—"Unsound and Unfit"—and in an extensive series of blog posts on National Review Online's Bench Memos blog, EPPC President Ed Whelan has exposed the radical record of Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu, President Obama's controversial nominee to a seat on the federal court of appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  [Full Story]

Don’t Defend, Don’t Appeal?
When may a president decline to defend a federal law?
Posted: Thursday, November 4, 2010
A recent ruling against the "don't ask, don't tell" law raises the broader question whether and when a president may decline to defend a federal law. In exploring the principles that govern this question, it's useful to test those principles against one's political biases.  [Full Story]

A Reckless False Alarm

Posted: Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Meryl Chertoff's inflammatory rhetoric defending Justice O'Connor's politicking shouldn't obscure the fact that Chertoff completely fails to address the substantive argument that O'Connor's conduct is unethical.  [Full Story]