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What is it we really mean when we talk about a ‘threat to judicial independence’?
In non-partisan terms, just look at the Hollywood example of gangster movies. That’s where a powerful mobster has got a handful of dirty cops in his pocket. Even if someone does manage to press charges against a high-ranking mobster, they have allies in the courts. It really doesn’t matter to the mobster if they have to pay them off or scare them witless so long as the judge hands down the ‘right’ rulings. And if they don’t play ball, the mobster knows how to settle scores.
For a society like ours to work, real-life judges need to be free to make the right ruling. That kind of freedom means not having to look over their shoulder at who might have it in for them for making the ‘wrong’ call or settling scores after the fact.
Even in the real world, someone with an ax to grind might find out where a judge lives and bring violence to their home. In the case of district judge Esther Salas, such an act of violence took the life of her son.
Powerful words from Obama-appointed district judge Esther Salas on with @DanaPerino​. Her only son was murdered at her home in 2020 by a gunman posing as a delivery man, intent on assassinating her. ​
"We no longer have our son. And why? Because I was doing my job." pic.twitter.com/acDK7qMfpl
— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) May 10, 2022
That’s why, when the radical left whips up crowds against judges, like they did in publishing the home addresses of the 6 SCOTUS justices, sitting judges do not take it lightly.
If our judges are being intimidated, they are definitionally not free to rule ‘without fear or favor’. This is why anyone trying to exert pressure on a judge — even if that includes the leader of the Democrat Senate — should be stopped in their tracks.
Psalms of War: Prayers That Literally Kick Ass is a collection, from the book of Psalms, regarding how David rolled in prayer. I bet you haven’t heard these read, prayed, or sung in church against our formidable enemies — and therein lies the Church’s problem. We’re not using the spiritual weapons God gave us to waylay the powers of darkness. It might be time to dust them off and offer ‘em up if you’re truly concerned about the state of Christ’s Church and of our nation.
Also included in this book, Psalms of War, are reproductions of the author’s original art from his Biblical Badass Series of oil paintings.
This is a great gift for the prayer warriors. Real. Raw. Relevant.
