For fifty years, one ruling told the country what it could believe about a child not yet born. Today on CURE America, Jonathan Alexandre of Liberty Counsel talks with J. Marc Wheat, general counsel of Advancing American Freedom; Torrey Snow, national clergy director CURE; and Martin Dannenfelser, CURE’s vice president for government relations and coalitions.
When the Court took that ruling back, the fight did not end. It moved. Wheat’s case is straightforward. The Constitution does not protect you with a list of rights alone. It protects you with a structure: Congress, a president, and nine justices whose job is to find the law, not invent it. Change the number of justices to lock in a political result, and you do not have a court anymore. You have a legislature that never stands for election. That is how a state can be told the argument is closed.
Snow says the damage is not only in Washington. When a city courtroom keeps sending the same young man back to the same street, neighborhoods empty out. When activists go after justices at their homes—and after Clarence Thomas by name—they are teaching people that no court has
Then the question Star Parker put on paper: what do black voters want? It is not a slogan and not a concert. It is a job, access to credit, and a school a parent chooses instead of one assigned by zip code. Support for school choice in black families is already high. The people blocking it have a system to protect. Snow puts that fight in a longer line—from Frederick Douglass, who argued for work and self-reliance, to a later bargain that offered belonging and helped push fathers out of the home. Byron Donalds and Winsome Sears are the test of whether that bargain still holds.
Congress is back in session. The fiscal year ends September 30. A temporary spending bill is supposed to keep the government open. It is also where hard votes get postponed—new delays for the marijuana industry, and no finish line yet on Medicaid money for Planned Parenthood. In this town, the lobbyist is easy to hear. The pastor living with the result is not.
That is tonight’s question. Who still has to answer to the law?
