Firm Foundation

Last summer, Foundation attorney Col. John Eidsmoe taught a Constitutional Litigation course at Handong International Law School (HILS), which is part of Handong Global University (HGU) in Pohang, South Korea. As Col. Eidsmoe explained in his post about that visit, Handong describes itself as a “worldchanging global Christian university” with a goal of training “honest [...]

“Our Montgomery location has recently closed.” So reads the website for Beacon Women’s Center, one of two abortion clinics in Montgomery, Ala.  We are thrilled to report that, as of this week, this 27-year-old abortion mill has been shut down for multiple and repeated violations of the health code. Ever since the Alabama Dept. of [...]

One of the popular metaphors used during the fight over judicial nominations to the Supreme Court is a “litmus test”—that is, whether the President will demand certain ideological commitments of his nominees before he would consider nominating them. President Obama today denied that he would use a litmus test on the issue of so-called “abortion [...]

Confirming what has been suspected for months, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is retiring at the end of the Court’s term in the early summer.  Justice Stevens had only hired one law clerk last year instead of the usual four, and as recently as last week admitted that he would retire during Barack Obama’s [...]

Whether it is the recent health care bill that pays for abortions, the steady loss of religious liberty, or the general decline in national morality, many Americans concerned with the direction of our country keep asking in despair, “What can I do?” Many good people have marched on Washington with a handmade sign in their [...]

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Haskell County, OK Ten Commandments monument.  This is neither an up or down vote on the monument, but since the 10th Circuit (in a 6-6 vote) did not uphold the monument as constitutional, this is the legal end-of-the-road for Haskell County.  For nearly every other Ten [...]

An Associated Press report released today starts off with great news: Some of mankind’s most devastating inherited diseases appear to be declining, and a few have nearly disappeared . . . . But the rest of the sentence contains the disturbing reason: “because more people are using genetic testing to decide whether to have children.” [...]

This Friday the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether it will review the constitutionality of a Ten Commandments monument erected at the Haskell County, Okla. Courthouse.  A federal district court, in a rather entertaining opinion, upheld the monument in 2006 against an attack by the ACLU.  But last year, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed [...]

The Birmingham Planned Parenthood that was caught covering up an allegation of statutory rape last year has been put on probationary status by the Alabama Department of Public Health. As you may recall, last year a pro-life group called Live Action sent into the Birmingham Planned Parenthood clinic two undercover actors, one of whom posed [...]

The much anticipated/maligned Tim and Pam Tebow advertisement was revealed last night during Super Bowl XLIV.  It was even more unassuming than any pro-life or “pro-choice” activist could have expected. Watch it here if you have not yet seen it: Other than a reference to “so many times when I almost lost him,” Pam Tebow [...]