Overview
The gravest threat to American democracy is the overweening power of judges. Phyllis Schlafly's spine-stiffening call to arms The Supremacists prepared conservatives for the Roberts and Alito confirmation battles. Now the revised and expanded paperback edition ensures that Americans won't surrender their self-government without a fight. The Supremacists begins with a survey judicial legislation. Chapter by chapter Schlafly reveals the astonishing scope of judicial ambition. Without any constitutional mandate, judges have banned the public recognition of God, redefined marriage, undermined national sovereignty, released a flood of pornography, institutionalized feminist dogma, and handicapped law enforcement. But Schlafly's most startling revelation is the origin of judicial supremacy. The tyranny of judges stems not from the modest claims of Marbury v. Madison but from the infamous Dred Scott decision—the most carefully concealed skeleton in the judicial supremacists' closet. In spite of everything, Schlafly concludes, the Constitution provides all the tools necessary to rescue America from the tyranny of judges.