Regent University: The Bush Administration has 150 grads on board [View All]

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Just heard on Rachel Maddow's show. Regent University is headed by Pat Robertson. Alumni include the likes of John Ashcroft. Link: http://www.regent.edu/

Regent is has a law school and is linked to the Heritage Foundation http://www.heritage.org/ as well as to the Federalist Society--all rife with lawyers bent on overturning the Constitution.

Read about these institutions and you will understand why BushCo is doing the things they do. They have infiltrated the government. If the atrocities we are seeing are to stop, they must be stopped by ridding the government of these cockroaches. They prove one thing that is important to us: a few people had ideas that they were committed to and they have worked for years to achieve the dominant position they now hold. The next time you think a few people cannot make a change, think again.

THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY
Fascist 'Feddies' March Through the Institutions
by Jeffrey Steinberg

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2006/3301federalist_soc.html
...Founded in 1982, at the University of Chicago and Yale University law schools, the Federalist Society has promoted the dismantling of all regulatory protection of the General Welfare, while advocating the most draconian police-state excesses, typified by the Patriot Acts and the "torture memos." These have been authored by a team of Federalist Society members and allies inside the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel and the White House Office of the General Counsel—under the sponsorship of Vice President Dick Cheney and Cheney's current chief of staff and general counsel, David Addington.

The Federalist Society's modus operandi: To hijack the curriculum at major American law schools on behalf of patently anti-American "Conservative Revolution" fascist dogmas, and place a carefully screened and indoctrinated group of ambitious right-wing attorneys in key posts in the Executive Branch, and in Federal regulatory agencies, to overturn the U.S. Constitution.

Federalist Society members and fellow-travelers now dominate the Office of the White House General Counsel and the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, and hold a large and growing number of Federal Court judgeships, including on the U.S. Supreme Court. Federalist Society board member C. Boyden Gray, who was White House General Counsel under President George H.W. Bush, employed Federalist Society founder Lee Liberman Otis to head up judicial screening at the Bush 41 White House; she boasted, according to Lawrence Walsh, that not one judicial appointment was made by Bush <41> of a non-Federalist Society member.

...Federalist Society booster Judge David Sentelle, Jr. headed the judicial committee that selected Federalist Society member Kenneth Starr to head the Whitewater probe. ...

Many civil rights activists see it quite differently. They characterize the Federalist Society as a network committed to the revival of the "Confederate doctrine of law," aimed at overturning all of the civil rights advances since Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Indeed, one leading Federalist Society member, University of Chicago Law School professor Richard Epstein, heads a movement called the "Constitution in Exile," which claims that FDR ripped up the Federal Constitution with his New Deal programs of Social Security and other social-safety-net guarantees—this, despite the fact that the General Welfare Clause of the Constitution's Preamble explicitly mandates that the Federal government "promote the general welfare" of current and future generations...

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...steering a large number of right-wing law professors and attorneys into the Federal courts. "The second track," CNN continued, "was even more forward-looking and involved the apprenticing of a new generation of conservative lawyer-intellectuals-under-30 to the Reagan apparatus. The second track required fresh meat, which is where the Federalist Society came in." By the late 1980s, the Federal courts were teeming with clerks hand-picked from the emerging ranks of the Federalist Society....

The current Bush 43 Administration has been loaded with Federalist Society members, including current and former Cabinet members John Ashcroft, Spencer Abraham, Gail Norton, and Michael Chertoff; and senior political appointees Larry Thompson, John Bolton, C. Boyden Gray, Timothy Flanigan, and Theodore Olson. The current U.S. Supreme Court includes prominent Federalist Society members and patrons, including Justices Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and the newly installed Chief Justice John Roberts. Nominee Samuel Alito is another Federalist Society member.

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The Federalist Society, in turn, has spawned an extensive network of religious and secular fronts, all working in concert, to further the Schmittlerian march through the institutions: Federalist Society trustee C. Boyden Gray has his Citizens for a Sound Economy; Federalist Society member Manuel Klausner runs the Individual Rights Foundation; Michael Rosner, an early Federalist Society leader, runs the Center for Individual Rights; Federalist Society figure James Bopp was a long-time top official of the National Right to Life Committee and the Christian Coalition; Roger Clegg runs the Center for Equal Opportunity; Donald Hodel, a leading Federalist Society figure and former Reagan Cabinet secretary, was the long-time President of the Christian Coalition.

Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School is a major recruiting ground for the Society, and Ave Maria School of Law, founded by Domino's Pizza magnate Thomas Monaghan, lists Society Co-Chairman Robert Bork on its faculty.

Other Federalist Society affiliates include: the Institute for Justice, the Washington Legal Foundation, the Pacific Legal Foundation, the American Center for Law and Justice at Robertson's Regent University Law School, the Christian Legal Society, the Rutherford Institute, and the Alliance Defense Fund. The Alliance Defense Fund is a coalition of religious groups, involved in a series of court cases challenging the separation of church and state.



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