Attack Update: January 8, 2007

• The Radicals: Phyllis Schlafly and Robert H. Dierker, Jr.
• The Attack: The world’s oldest ultra-conservative, Phyllis Schlafly, touts a book by a sitting court judge attacking activist judges, and tells her audience not to forget to buy her new book on the same topic.
• Schlafly, who never misses a chance to publicize her own book, “The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It,” continues her crusade against the judiciary.
• Schlafly quotes sitting state court judge Robert H. Dierker, Jr.’s new book: "Illiberal liberals and feminists don't want equality; they want to make some people more equal than others. And they've made it happen through their dominance of the courts.” (emphasis added)
• Schlafly continues: “Why hasn't Congress used its constitutional power to limit the jurisdiction of federal judges? Maybe because the "tyranny of tolerance" has so intimidated congressmen that they lack the manliness to risk the tantrums of the illiberals and the feminists.”
• Schlafly campaigned for the impeachment of Justice Kennedy after the decision in Lawrence v. Texas by the Supreme Court.
• The Significance: Phyllis Schlafly is always attacking some member of the judiciary about some decision that she does not like, and ranting about how judges will be responsible for ending the world. What “more equal” means, exactly, is hard to determine, but by definition, striving for “more equal[ity]” does not mean attaining superiority.  One cannot try to make the world a “more equal” place unless people are already treated unequally within it. These critics forget that, in addition to providing the rights of citizenship to the disenfranchised, civil rights protect the rights of the enfranchised from attack as well.