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CWA Says Federal Judge Who Trashed Nebraska Marriage Law Proves Senate Log Jam Must End 5/13/2005

Washington, D.C. – Concerned Women for America (CWA) decried U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon’s ridiculous ruling that Nebraska’s law, which defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman and prohibits civil unions and domestic partnerships, violates the federal Constitution. The ruling defies Nebraska voters, who approved their state marriage law in 2000 by 70 percent.

“Three federal judges have struck down the ban on partial-birth abortion. In January, a federal judge ignored decades of Supreme Court precedent and declared the federal obscenity statutes unconstitutional. Yesterday, another federal judge ignored 6,000 years of human history to toss marriage out the window,” said Jan LaRue, CWA's chief counsel. “Can it get more obvious that it's past time for the Senate to stop fiddling around and confirm some judges who don't think the Constitution is their personal Play Dough?”

“Until we get judges who understand that their job in a government of balanced power is to apply the law, not trash it, we will see more judicial tyranny,” said Robert Knight, director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute. “Nebraska’s many citizens who worked to protect marriage and then turned out for a 70-percent-approval vote have been slapped right across the face by this arrogant federal judge. You can see why Senate liberals are also trashing democracy by denying an up-or-down vote on judicial nominees; they like their little monopoly, and don’t want the people to have any say, unless it fits their radical liberal agenda, of course.”

“The Democrat obstructionists clinging desperately to the filibuster think judges like Bataillon, who make a mockery of the Constitution, are ‘mainstream’ and judges like Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown, who respect and defer to it, are ‘extreme,’” LaRue concluded.