A non-profit organization is trying to warn the American public about the effect an Obama presidency would have on the Supreme Court.
The Judicial Confirmation Network (JCN) is an organization of citizens joined together to support the confirmation of highly qualified individuals to the Supreme Court of the United States. The JCN also works to ensure that the confirmation process for all judicial nominees is fair and that every nominee sent to the full Senate receives an up-or-down vote. Wendy Long, legal counsel to the JCN, warns that if elected, Senator Barack Obama would appoint ultra-liberal activist judges to the Supreme Court, who would set the pro-family movement back by at least a generation. "We'd see things like a constitutional right to same-sex 'marriage,' a constitutional right to federal taxpayer funding of abortion. We'd likely see a so-called constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide and to human cloning. [References to God] would come out of the Pledge of Allegiance and perhaps off our currency and every other public place," she explains. "So we may wake up, but it would be too late -- because once Barack Obama has a chance to appoint a majority of a Supreme Court, then decisions like those would be out of the hands of voters for certainly a generation and perhaps longer." Long does not believe that Obama will nominate anyone to the bench who would be acceptable to the vast majority of mainstream Americans of both major political parties.
