The Pro-Family Law Center of Southern California Expresses Relief at the Resignation of Justice O'Connor from Supreme Court Bench
PFLC, a nonprofit legal services organization in California, is grateful that Justice O'Connor is no longer going to be on the bench. PFLC believes that a new strict constructionist is necessary to the preservation of justice in the United States.
Temecula, CA (PRWEB) July 3, 2005 -- The Pro-Family Law Center is "expressly a deep but perhaps temporary sense of relief" in its assessment of the resignation of Justice O'Connor.
Richard D. Ackerman, PFLC's president and chief litigator says, "Unfortunately O'Connor was a swing vote on many cases that could have made the difference between life and death for millions of unborn children. Instead of weighing in on the side of life, she chose a course of judicial conduct that assured the imminent death of all these babies." Ackerman is referring to what is known as the Carhart decision, in which O'Connor described the gruesome nature of partial birth abortion during the oral arguments, but went on to decide in favor of this method of prenatal death anyway.
More recently, Ackerman has expressed deep concern over O'Connor's decision to look to foreign sources of law in deciding important issues relating to the natural family and the sovereignty of the United States. Ackerman says, "As Americans, one would think that we would have the right to rely on the United States Constitution as the sole source of all ultimate jurisprudence in our society. O'Connor, much like the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals apparently does not feel the same way. We need another strict constructionist on the bench or we may eventually see a civil war in the illegal immigration arena and the deaths of many adult persons simply because they don't meet some arbitrary standard of life set forth by the European Union or some other liberal bastion of human secularism."
Finally, PFLC "Hopes that President Bush will be most circumspect in his choosing of our next Supreme Court justice. The US cannot afford to lose its sovereignty in a time where terrorists would like to see exactly this, we cannot continue to bathe this nation in the blood of innocent human lives because of a swing vote, and we certainly deserve the assurance that our Constitution remains the exclusive guiding light, aside from God Himself, when it comes to determining our rights. As it is right now, the person with the swing vote on the Supreme Court becomes, ultimately, a dictator with a fiat even over the Congress and President. We know that Reagan never intended this when he appointed O'Connor to the bench. I would not want to see Bush go to his grave with the horrible reservations that Reagan might likely have had over his appointment of a justice who violated all that was near and dear to the President's heart and the soul of the American public."
PFLC's attorneys are available for comment and analysis on the various issues that are likely to come before the United States Supreme Court in the next several decades.
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