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Ernest Istook: “If the President were to say that there are grave problems within the Executive Branch, we would be wise to listen. If…”

On the recordJune 4, 1998
If the President were to say that there are grave problems within the Executive Branch, we would be wise to listen. If the Speaker were to say that there are grave problems within the Congress, we would be wise to listen. If the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court said there were problems with what that Court was doing, we would be wise to listen. Mr. Speaker, the Chief Justice has said so. The rulings of the Supreme Court over the last 36 years have used the first amendment not to protect freedom of religion but to attack it; to say that rather than freedom of religion, it is freedom from religion. I am proud to say that Chief Justice William Rehnquist, as well as many other justices, has been a steady voice in dissenting from what the other justices have done. He has been a steady voice in saying that the Court is going in the wrong direction; that it is undermining our religious liberty, rather than protecting it.
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Ernest Istook
Oklahoma
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Addressing concerns about the Supreme Court's interpretation of the First Amendment and its impact on religious liberty.

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