The Presidential Nominee by David Barton and Rick Green

His first proposal a particularly worrying one is of Fed. District Judge David Hamilton to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which oversees Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.  When Hamilton was made a Fed. district judge by President Clinton in 1994, the American Bar Association rated him as “not qualified.” of course, before his appointment as a judge, Hamilton had been a fundraiser for the widely-discredited group ACORN and was also a board member of the Indiana ACLU, serving as its legal action director. Three years back in 2006, Judge Hamilton delivered an unprecedented ruling, ordering the Indiana Legislature to drop its 188-year-old practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer.

Strikingly, the case had been brought before him by the Indiana ACLU, the group he had helped direct.  Although the legislature had requests from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim clerics, Judge Hamilton moaned that some of the ministers had made use of the inaccurate words in their requests. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ( to which he’s now been designated ) overturned Judge Hamilton’s unprecedented ruling. The Indiana Legislature passed a law requiring termination hospitals to provide ladies with info about possible choices to termination, except for 7 years, Judge Hamilton kept that law tied up in his court before ultimately striking it down. The 7th Circuit Court ( one ) reversed Hamilton’s radical pro-abortion call in that case, ( two ) indicated that his governing was unprecedented by any other court in the country, and ( three ) reprimanded him for his aggressive handling of that case.

For 7 years, Indiana has been stopped from effecting a statute materially matching to a law held valid by the high court in Casey [in 1992], by this court in Karlin [in 1998], and by the 5th circuit in Barnes [in 1992]. No court anywhere in the country ( apart from one district judge in Indiana [i.e, Hamilton] ) has held any similar law invalid in the years since Casey. Though Salerno [in 1987] does not foreclose all pre-enforcement challenges to termination laws, it is an abuse of restraint for a district judge to distibute a pre-enforcement injunction while the results of the law ( and reasons for those effects ) are open to argue. There are plenty of other worrying choices by Judge Hamilton, including issues related to illegal drug possession, and the capability of child sex offenders to move openly inside a state.

Judge David Hamilton has proved himself to be an acute pro-abortion activist and a non secular bigot, particularly singling out Christianity for antagonistic treatment. Now, President Obama wants to reward him by raising him to the court that overruled his radical calls. USA citizens don’t need legal activists on Fed. courts who purposely weaken the constitutional protection of life and non secular freedom.