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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
This Week's Feature

AUL President to Testify at Kagan Hearings

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, AUL’s President & CEO, has been called to testify this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

“I am honored to have the opportunity to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the nomination of Solicitor-General Elena Kagan to the highest court in the land,” Dr. Yoest said. “Since President Obama announced his pick for the Supreme Court in May, AUL’s team of pro-life legal experts has been releasing ‘Kagan File’ memos revealing the nominee’s support of unrestricted abortion, her radical associations, and her agenda-driven judicial philosophy. I look forward to sharing our extensive legal research with the committee’s members.”


On The Docket


AUL Legal Expert Liveblogs Kagan Hearings for Human Events

AUL Senior Counsel Mary Harned contributed five blog posts to the leading news blog Human Events yesterday, giving up-to-the-minute pro-life legal commentary on the Kagan hearings. Her posts included “Kagan’s Answer on Roe Reveals Her Pro-Abortion Ideology,” “Backtracking on Barak: Kagan Plays Down Talk of ‘Hero’,” “Was Kagan ‘Just Doing Her Job’ on Citizens United Case?”, “A ‘Whole Life’ of Support for Abortion & Agenda-Driven Judging,” and “The Dangers of ‘Special Solicitude’ in the Courts.” Visit the AUL Blog to see links to all these posts, as well as links to Harned’s latest posts, as she continues to liveblog the hearings.

Media Spotlights AUL Sister Organization’s Video on Nominee’s ‘Judicial Hero’

Americans United for Life Action’s explosive new video, “The Other Barak,” which reveals the truth about the foreign judge Elena Kagan calls her “judicial hero,” made waves throughout the media this week, including on the Drudge Report and U.S. News & World Report’s Web site.

The two-minute YouTube clip calls former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak “the world’s most radical advocate for an agenda-driven judiciary.” It features video footage of Kagan praising Barak, alternated with information about his disturbing belief that judges may impose their own personal agenda upon others by changing the law. It also includes footage of Barak admitting that his philosophy “may not fit some democracies.” Watch the video on the AUL Action blog.

Missouri Enacts AUL’s ‘Pregnant Women Protection Act’

Denise Burke, AUL’s Vice President of Legal Affairs, reports on the AUL Blog that Missouri last week became the second state to enact a version of the “Pregnant Woman’s Protection Act,” a piece of AUL model legislation ensuring that a pregnant woman can use deadly force to protect the life of her unborn child. In 2009, Oklahoma became the first state to enact this important and much-needed legislation, passing it by unanimous votes in both the House and Senate. Read the full story on the AUL Blog.