Justice Sunday: Articles & Commentary

The following are articles & commentary related to Justice Sunday.

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Justice Sunday I: "Stopping the Filibuster Against People of Faith" - April 24, 2005

• Laura Flanders with Steven Rosenfeld, "Republican Vigilantism," Laura Flanders Show, April 11, 2005: "It’s not just that the White House and the Senate Right are gearing up to do whatever it’ll take to pack the judiciary. There’s a campaign going on against the rule of law itself."
• Carl Hulse, "Republicans May Hasten Showdown on Judicial-Nomination Filibusters," New York Times, April 13, 2005.
• David D. Kirkpatrick, "Frist Set to Use Religious Stage on Judicial Issue," New York Times, April 15, 2005: "As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as 'against people of faith' for blocking" President George W. Bush's nominees.
• "Bill Frist's Religious War," New York Times, April 16, 2005.
• David D. Kirkpatrick and Carl Hulse, "Frist Accused of Exploiting Religion Issue," New York Times, April 16, 2005.
• V. Edward Martin, "Bill Frist's Christian Jihad," Watchblog.com, April 16, 2005.
• "Lott Agrees With Frist: Filibuster An Attack on God," Think Progress, April 17, 2005: "The suggestion that judicial nominees are being opposed because they believe in God is ridiculous. But that didn’t stop Trent Lott from repeating the claim on ABC’s This Week."
• Joe Conason, "Frist and His Allies Use Piety for Profit," New York Observer, April 20, 2005.
• Editorial: "Playing the religion card," San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 2005.
• "Religious Leaders Teleconference to Urge Majority Leader Frist Not to Legitimate the Message of 'Justice Sunday'," US Newswire, April 21, 2005.
• Charles Cutter, "The Politics of Intolerance," Cutter's Way, April 22, 2005.
• Peter Wallsten, "2 Evangelicals Want to Strip Courts' Funds. Taped at a private conference, the leaders outline ways to punish jurists they oppose," Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2005: re comments made by Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, and James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Thomas D. DeLay.
• Hollie Russon Gilman, "Justice Sunday is one more way the GOP forces its beliefs on others," Chicago Maroon (University of Chicago), April 22, 2005.
• David D. Kirkpatrick and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "Frist Draws Criticism From Some Church Leaders," New York Times, April 23, 2005.
• Paul Gaston, ". . . Smearing Christian Judges," Washington Post, April 23, 2005: "People calling themselves Christians are gathering once again for a crusade against what they consider to be the secular humanist subversion of Christian values. This time the object of their wrath is the judiciary. In the wake of the fanatical and fruitless assaults against the judicial system for letting Terri Schiavo die, the Family Research Council will convene tomorrow what it calls 'Justice Sunday,' a live simulcast to pit Christian values against 'our out-of-control courts'."
• "Rabbi Daniel Lapin Joins Justice Sunday During This Passover Weekend," PR Newswire, April 23, 2005.
• "'Justice Sunday' Hypocrisy Revealed," Talk Left, April 23, 2005: "When it suited its own purposes, the Family Research Council had no trouble urging use of the filibuster."
• James Bruggers, "Ministers urge cancellation of 'Justice Sunday'. Group says event mixes faith, politics," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 23, 2005.
• Brett Barrouquere, "'Justice Sunday' Event Sparking Protests," Associated Press, April 23, 2005.
• Andrew Wolfson, "Justice Sunday to air tonight. Filibuster fight cast as an issue of faith," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 24, 2005.
• Kay Stewart, "Ex-judge urges Americans to 'rise up'," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 24, 2005.
• Stuart F. James, "The Conservative Wrong," The Chattanoogan, April 24, 2005.
• John Leo, "'Justice Sunday' Will Only Increase Polarization," UExpress, April 24, 2005.
• Frank Rich, "A High-Tech Lynching in Prime Time," New York Times, April 24, 2005.
• Kara Miller, "The rise of the finger-waggers," MetroWest Daily News, April 24, 2005.
• Joseph Phelps, "Different types of ‘justice’ — Justice Sunday, a religious right rally for judicial nominees, is really a call for theocracy," Anniston Star (AL), April 24, 2005.
• Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten, "Frist Initiative Creates Rift in GOP Base," Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2005.
• JoAnne Allen, "Christian Conservatives Take Aim at Filibusters," Reuters, April 25, 2005.
• David D. Kirkpatrick, "Frist rallies faithful for Bush's judicial nominees," San Francisco Chronicle, April 25, 2005.
• Kay Stewart, "Pickering says judicial confirmation process 'badly needs to be fixed'," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 25, 2005.
• Kay Stewart, "Few will comment following the event. Some say they were asked not to speak," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 25, 2005: "Most of the 1,700 people who attended last night's 'Justice Sunday' telecast at Highview Baptist Church appeared to support organizers' efforts, but few would comment after the event."
• Elisabeth J. Beardsley, "Foes attack event as intolerant. Rallies' speakers see threats to freedom," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 25, 2005.
• Susan Jones, "'Justice Sunday' Broadcast Addresses Obstruction of Judicial Nominees," Crosswalk, April 25, 2005.
• Michael McGough, "Judges and 'traditional values'. A 100th birthday party for a despised Supreme Court decision reminds us that judicial activism is in the eye of the beholder," Post-Gazette, April 25, 2005.
• Dick Polman, "On Justice Sunday, evangelicals boast: 'We're going to save this civilization'," Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 2005: "'Justice Sunday' raises pressure on the GOP."
• Jason Miller, "'Onward Christian soldier'," The Smirking Chimp, April 25, 2005.
• Maura Satchell, "Frist criticized for involvement in 'Justice Sunday' video. Opponents say religion used for political purpose," The Daily News Journal (Murfreesboro, TN), April 25, 2005.
• "Frist, Reid Work on Judge-Approval Deal. Majority Leader Bill Frist, Sen. Harry Reid May Have a Compromise on Judge Approvals," Associated Press, April 25, 2005.
• Steven Thomma, "Religious conservatives' demands on government may spark backlash," Knight Ridder News Service, April 25, 2005.
• "Frist speaks to Christian anti-filibuster rally. Other religious leaders call rally a false union of faith, politics," CNN, April 25, 2005.
• Frank James, "Christians square off over battle for judiciary," Chicago Tribune, April 25, 2005.
• Katrina vanden Heuvel, "'Bad Religion, Bad Politics'," The Nation, April 25, 2005.
• Editorial: "Girding for filibuster war. Frist makes nice; Cheney talks tough," Newsday, April 26, 2005.
• Peter Wallsten, "Faith 'War' Rages in U.S., Judge Says," Los Angeles Times, April 26, 2005: Speaking April 24, 2005, to "a gathering of Roman Catholic legal professionals" in Darien, CT, "Just days after a bitterly divided Senate committee voted along party lines to approve her nomination as a federal appellate court judge, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown told an audience Sunday that people of faith were embroiled in a 'war' against secular humanists who threatened to divorce America from its religious roots, according to a newspaper account of the speech."
• Dante Chinni, "'Nuclear option' and bipartisan hypocrisy. The filibuster has different allies in the Senate at different times," Christian Science Monitor, April 26, 2005.
• Judy Keen, "Rove: Bolton will be confirmed; judges deserve vote," USA Today, April 26, 2005: "Karl Rove rejected a compromise with Senate Democrats Monday on long-stalled nominations for the federal judiciary and strongly defended President Bush's choice of John Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations."
• James R. Carroll, "Chandler, McConnell reflect split over Justice Sunday. Others in Congress are mum on issue," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 26, 2005: Rep. Ben Chandler (D-6th District): "the message of Justice Sunday was that only those who agree with the Christian right can be people of faith"; Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): "the event that denounced Democrats as 'against people of faith' was no different from what Democrats have done in the past, with little criticism."
• Max Blumenthal, "Justice Sunday Preachers," The Nation, April 26, 2005.
• "Olbermann uncovers Family Research Council filibuster flip-flop," Media Matters for America, April 26, 2005: "MSNBC host Keith Olbermann noted that the Family Research Council (FRC), which is currently campaigning to stop filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees by Senate Democrats, was quite vocal in the late 1990s in defending the right to filibuster another presidential nominee, James C. Hormel, who was nominated by President [Bill] Clinton as ambassador to Luxembourg."
• John Leo, "Not a Religious Fight," US News & World Report, May 2, 2005 (issue).

Justice Sunday II: "Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land" - July 14, 2005

• David D. Kirkpatrick, "Christian Conservatives Will Take Aim at Supreme Court in New Telecast," New York Times, July 15, 2005.
• Jonathan M. Katz, "Frist Not Invited to 'Justice Sunday II'," Associated Press (Washington Post), August 2, 2005.
• David D. Kirkpatrick, "DeLay to Be on Christian Telecast on Courts," New York Times, August 3, 2005.

Justice Sunday III: "Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land" - January 8, 2006

• "Senator Rick Santorum to Speak at Justice Sunday III," Family Research Council, December 29, 2005.