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rALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – President Donald Trump believed his vice president had the power to overturn the election following a conversation with a former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, the New York Times reports.
In the days leading up to the election, Trump was certain Vice President Mike Pence could legally overturn the election results as Congress gathered in a joint session to tally the votes of the Electoral College.
The Times said Trump told Pence that Mark Martin, the former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, said the vice president had the power to hand the election to the president.
However last Wednesday, Pence acknowledged that he did not have the power to unilaterally throw out electoral college votes as Trump and some of his attorneys had wrongly insisted.
Martin, a registered Republican, spent more than 20 years on the North Carolina Supreme Court before resigning in February 2019 to become dean of Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach.
Pence said the count “shall be deemed a sufficient declaration” of Biden’s victory, but offered no words of congratulations to the incoming administration. It capped an extraordinary day of chaos, violence, and division after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, sending lawmakers into hiding and delaying the proceeding.
Under normal circumstances, the vote-tallying procedure would be a mere formality — the final step in the complicated technical process of electing a new administration.
But after losing court case after court case and with no further options at hand, Trump and his allies had zeroed in on Jan. 6 as their last-ditch chance to try to influence the outcome.
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Regent University, founded in 1978 as CBN University by Pat Robertson, founder and president of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), became Regent University in January 1990. Regent has campuses in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. campus near the Potomac River. [1]
The first class began in 1978 and the first class graduated in May 1980. In the fall of 2000, Regent introduced an undergraduate degree-completion program "to give working adults opportunities to complete bachelor's degrees in an accelerated format." [2]
Regent University, which bills itself as the nation's academic center for Christian thought and action, states on its website that it is a "graduate school dedicated to combining quality education with biblical teachings" and "continues to produce Christian leaders who will make a difference, who will change the world." [3]
Graduates serving in the Bush administration
2 Accreditation
3 Contact Information
4 Related SourceWatch Resources
5 External links
Graduates serving in the Bush administration
According to Regent University "Quick Facts", there are "150 graduates serving in the Bush Administration."
"The Regent law school was founded in 1986, when Oral Roberts University shut down its ailing law school and sent its library to Robertson's Bible-based college in Virginia. It was initially called 'CBN University School of Law' after the televangelist's Christian Broadcasting Network, whose studios share the campus and which provided much of the funding for the law school. (The Coors Foundation is also a donor to the university.) The American Bar Association accredited Regent 's law school in 1996," Charlie Savage wrote April 8, 2007, in the Boston Globe.
"Not long ago, it was rare for Regent graduates to join the federal government. But in 2001, the Bush administration picked the dean of Regent's government school, Kay Coles James (bio), to be the director of the Office of Personnel Management -- essentially the head of human resources for the executive branch. The doors of opportunity for government jobs were thrown open to Regent alumni," Savage wrote.
Accreditation
"The school is accredited by major academic governing bodies such as the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the Association of Theological Schools (ATS), and the American Bar Association (ABA), the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)." [4]
Contact Information
1000 Regent University Drive
Virginia Beach, VA 23464
Phone: 800 373- 5504 / 757 226-4127
Website: http://www.regent.edu/general/about_us/
Contact Us
Related SourceWatch Resources
Bush administration U.S. attorney firings controversy
John Ashcroft (Regent University "Distinguished Professor of Law and Government")
Monica Goodling
The Bush Theocracy
External links
Christopher Hayes, "Student Body Right. At evangelical colleges like Pat Robertson's Regent, what they’re taught and what they learn are two very different things," The American Prospect, September 1, 2005.
J. Goodrich, "Regent University and the Bush administration," TAPPED, March 28, 2007.
Max Blumenthal, "Monica Goodling, One of 150 Pat Robertson Cadres in the Bush Administration," The Huffington Post, March 30, 2007.
"Fifth-Pleading AttorneyGate Official is a Loyal Bushie from Pat Robertson University," BuzzFlash, April 2, 2007.
Dahlia Lithwick, "Who's the Boss? How Pat Robertson's law school is changing America," Slate, April 7, 2007.
Dahlia Lithwick, "Justice's Holy Hires," Washington Post, April 8, 2007.
Charlie Savage, "Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school. Grads influential in Justice Dept.," Boston Globe, April 8, 2007.
Andrew Cohen, "The Pros Drain Out of Justice," Bench Conference Blog / Washington Post, April 8, 2007.
trifecta, "Regent University Grads Fill The Bush Administration," Corrente Wire, April 8, 2007.
Max Blumenthal, "The Press Discovers Pat Robertson's Real Influence (Thanks to the Other Monica)," The Huffington Post, April 9, 2007.
MrMichaelMT, "Beware Sleeper Cell in the U.S.A.," Daily Kos, April 9, 2007.
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Regent University is a
private coeducational interdenominational Christian university located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. The university was founded byPat Robertson in 1978 as Christian Broadcasting Network University, and changed its name to Regent University in 1989.[1] A satellite campus located in Alexandria, Virginia, was sold in 2008. Regent offers an extensive distance education program in addition to its traditional on-campus programs.[3] Through its eight academic schools, Regent offers associate's, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in over 30 courses of study.[4] Regent University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools[5] and The Association of Theological Schools.[6]
Contents
1 History
2 Academics
2.1 Undergraduate Studies
2.2 Graduate Studies
2.2.1 School of Divinity
2.2.2 School of Education
2.2.3 School of Business & Leadership
2.2.4 School of Communication & the Arts
2.2.5 Robertson School of Government
2.2.6 School of Law
2.2.6.1 Alumni
2.2.6.2 Faculty
2.2.6.3 Bar Pass Rates
2.2.6.4 Center for Global Justice, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law
2.2.6.5 American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ)
2.2.6.6 Center for Advocacy
2.2.7 School of Psychology & Counseling
3 Campus
3.1 Main campus (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
4 Student life
4.1 Student government and councils
4.2 Student organizations
4.3 Student housing
5 University reputation
5.1 Rankings
5.2 ABA national competition wins
5.3 Bar passage rates
5.4 Identification with the Christian right
5.5 Freedom of expression controversy
5.6 Bush administration hires
5.7 Lawsuit against the University System of Georgia
6 Faculty
7 Noted alumni
8 References
9 External links
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Grads influential in Justice Dept.
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | April 8, 2007
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- The title of the course was Constitutional Law, but the subject was sin. Before any casebooks were opened, a student led his classmates in a 10-minute devotional talk, completed with "amens," about the need to preserve their Christian values.
"Sin is so appealing because it's easy and because it's fun," the law student warned.
Regent University School of Law, founded by televangelist Pat Robertson to provide "Christian leadership to change the world," has worked hard in its two-decade history to upgrade its reputation, fighting past years when a majority of its graduates couldn't pass the bar exam and leading up to recent victories over Ivy League teams in national law student competitions.
But even in its darker days, Regent has had no better friend than the Bush administration. Graduates of the law school have been among the most influential of the more than 150 Regent University alumni hired to federal government positions since President Bush took office in 2001, according to a university website.
One of those graduates is Monica Goodling , the former top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who is at the center of the storm over the firing of US attorneys. Goodling, who resigned on Friday, has become the face of Regent overnight -- and drawn a harsh spotlight to the administration's hiring of officials educated at smaller, conservative schools with sometimes marginal academic reputations.
Documents show that Goodling, who has asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before Congress, was one of a handful of officials overseeing the firings. She helped install Timothy Griffin , the Karl Rove aide and her former boss at the Republican National Committee, as a replacement US attorney in Arkansas.
Because Goodling graduated from Regent in 1999 and has scant prosecutorial experience, her qualifications to evaluate the performance of US attorneys have come under fire. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, asked at a hearing: "Should we be concerned with the experience level of the people who are making these highly significant decisions?"
And across the political blogosphere, critics have held up Goodling, who declined to be interviewed, as a prime example of the Bush administration subordinating ability to politics in hiring decisions.
"It used to be that high-level DOJ jobs were generally reserved for the best of the legal profession," wrote a contributor to The New Republic website . ". . . That a recent graduate of one of the very worst (and sketchiest) law schools with virtually no relevant experience could ascend to this position is a sure sign that there is something seriously wrong at the DOJ."
The Regent law school was founded in 1986, when Oral Roberts University shut down its ailing law school and sent its library to Robertson's Bible-based college in Virginia. It was initially called "CBN University School of Law" after the televangelist's Christian Broadcasting Network, whose studios share the campus and which provided much of the funding for the law school. (The Coors Foundation is also a donor to the university.) The American Bar Association accredited Regent 's law school in 1996.
Not long ago, it was rare for Regent graduates to join the federal government. But in 2001, the Bush administration picked the dean of Regent's government school, Kay Coles James , to be the director of the Office of Personnel Management -- essentially the head of human resources for the executive branch. The doors of opportunity for government jobs were thrown open to Regent alumni.
"We've had great placement," said Jay Sekulow , who heads a non profit law firm based at Regent that files lawsuits aimed at lowering barriers between church and state. "We've had a lot of people in key positions."
Many of those who have Regent law degrees, including Goodling, joined the Department of Justice. Their path to employment was further eased in late 2002, when John Ashcroft , then attorney general, changed longstanding rules for hiring lawyers to fill vacancies in the career ranks.
Previously, veteran civil servants screened applicants and recommended whom to hire, usually picking top students from elite schools.
In a recent Regent law school newsletter, a 2004 graduate described being interviewed for a job as a trial attorney at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in October 2003. Asked to name the Supreme Court decision from the past 20 years with which he most disagreed, he cited Lawrence v. Texas, the ruling striking down a law against sodomy because it violated gay people's civil rights.
"When one of the interviewers agreed and said that decision in Lawrence was 'maddening,' I knew I correctly answered the question," wrote the Regent graduate . The administration hired him for the Civil Rights Division's housing section -- the only employment offer he received after graduation, he said.
The graduate from Regent -- which is ranked a "tier four" school by US News & World Report, the lowest score and essentially a tie for 136th place -- was not the only lawyer with modest credentials to be hired by the Civil Rights Division after the administration imposed greater political control over career hiring.
The changes resulted in a sometimes dramatic alteration to the profile of new hires beginning in 2003, as the Globe reported last year after obtaining resumes from 2001-2006 to three sections in the civil rights division. Conservative credentials rose, while prior experience in civil rights law and the average ranking of the law school attended by the applicant dropped.
As the dean of a lower-ranked law school that benefited from the Bush administration's hiring practices, Jeffrey Brauch of Regent made no apologies in a recent interview for training students to understand what the law is today, and also to understand how legal rules should be changed to better reflect "eternal principles of justice," from divorce laws to abortion rights.
"We anticipate that many of our graduates are going to go and be change agents in society," Brauch said.
Still, Brauch said, the recent criticism of the law school triggered by Goodling's involvement in the US attorney firings has missed the mark in one respect: the quality of the lawyers now being turned out by the school, he argued, is far better than its image.
Seven years ago, 60 percent of the class of 1999 -- Goodling's class -- failed the bar exam on the first attempt. (Goodling's performance was not available, though she is admitted to the bar in Virginia.) The dismal numbers prompted the school to overhaul its curriculum and tighten admissions standards.
It has also spent more heavily to recruit better-qualified law students. This year, it will spend $2.8 million on scholarships, a million more than what it was spending four years ago.
The makeover is working. The bar exam passage rate of Regent alumni , according to the Princeton Review, rose to 67 percent last year. Brauch said it is now up to 71 percent, and that half of the students admitted in the late 1990s would not be accepted today. The school has also recently won moot-court and negotiation competitions, beating out teams from top-ranked law schools.
Adding to Regent's prominence, its course on "Human Rights, Civil Liberties, and National Security" is co taught by one of its newest professors: Ashcroft.
Even a prominent critic of the school's mission of integrating the Bible with public policy vouches for Regent's improvements. Barry Lynn , the head of the liberal Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, said Regent is churning out an increasingly well-trained legal army for the conservative Christian movement.
"You can't underestimate the quality of a lot of the people that are there," said Lynn, who has guest-lectured at Regent and debated professors on its campus.
In light of Regent's rapid evolution, some current law students say it is frustrating to be judged in light of Regent alumni from the school's more troubled era -- including Goodling.
One third-year student, Chamie Riley , said she rejected the idea that any government official who invokes her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination could be a good representative of Regent.
As Christians, she said, Regent students know "you should be morally upright. You should not be in a situation where you have to plead the Fifth."
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By Steven G. Vegh
The Virginian-Pilot
VIRGINIA BEACH
For some, Monica Goodling has become the face of Regent University's law school.
And therein lies the challenge for its administrators and students.
Though bar pass rates have doubled since 2000 and the school has beefed up its academic standards, Regent Law is reaping wider, but less glorious, fame from Goodling, a 1999 graduate being questioned by Congress for her role in a Justice Department scandal.
Goodling told Congress at a hearing last month that she "crossed the line" in using political criteria to hire government attorneys.
At that hearing, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., asked Goodling: "Are you aware of the fact that in your graduating class, 50 to 60 percent of the students failed the bar the first time?"
"I know it wasn't good," said Goodling, who originally claimed Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination in refusing to testify.
Goodling's influential role in the Justice Department has brought attention to Regent's claim that 150 of its alumni have served at various times in the Bush administration.
What Regent has called an achievement has been used by liberal commentators and comedians as an opportunity to criticize or mock the law school and its founder, Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson.
Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist, called the Regent grads part of "the Christian right's strategy of infiltration" of government. Comedian Jon Stewart joked that the school was no more rigorous than a "Jiffy Law" drive-through.
The ridicule and suspicion have irked some Regent students, including Dawn Young. This year, she and classmate Stephen L. Pfeiffer won the American Bar Association's national negotiation competition, beating teams from the country's top law schools.
"It's not just some weird religious school," Young said of Regent. "We are a good - great - law school."
Dean Jeffrey Brauch said of the critics: "My reaction has been, I wish they could see the real law school."
Regent's law school opened in 1986, nine years after Robertson founded the university in Virginia Beach under the motto "Christian leadership to change the world."
By 2000, the law school's bar exam pass rate had sunk to 36 percent.
But under Brauch, who took over in 2000, the latest pass rate averaged a combined 74 percent for students taking the bar for the first time last July or in February of this year.
The law school is more selective under Brauch, accepting about 4 in 10 applicants, according to the university, compared with more than half a few years ago. Applicants also have higher grade-point averages, according to university officials.
Applicants are posting higher scores on the LSAT, the law school admission exam, as well. In 2006, the top 25 percent scored 156 or better out of 180, an increase of four points since 2000.
On billboards around Hampton Roads, Regent has also touted the success of its law students in national competitions, including the top prize in the bar association 's 2006 national moot court competition.
The improvements coincide with new required courses on topics covered in the bar exam, including business and family law. Brauch also has added full-time faculty to replace part-timers who had taught legal writing.
An academic success teacher was added for struggling students, and a summer session offers extra help in legal skills, including reading court briefs.
As for credibility, Brauch and Regent students cite Regent's accreditation by the American Bar Association.
"We meet the same quality standards that every law school does," Brauch said.
The association doesn't rank law schools or advocate ratings.
But U.S. News & World Report does compile rankings annually, and Regent hasn't fared well in those reports.
The 2008 edition of U.S. News & World Report's guide to 184 law schools puts Regent in the bottom tier. Appalachian School of Law, a secular school in western Virginia that admitted its first students in 1997, is also in the last tier, which includes 45 schools.
In comparison, the University of Virginia's law school is ranked 10th in the nation; five of the seven Virginia law schools in the report were in the top 100. The law school at Liberty University, an evangelical institution, was not part of the study.
The rankings were based on 12 criteria, including bar exam pass rates and other statistics. The U.S. News guide also showed Regent had the lowest bar pass rate among the Virginia law schools in the report, although the roundup did not include scores from the two most recent exams.
In another category - school assessments by lawyers and judges - Regent was behind 171 other schools and ahead of only 12.
Regent's low position in the magazine's guide was grist for commentators lambasting Good-ling's alma mater.
"It's not a hard school to get into," sneered comic Bill Maher. "You have to renounce Satan and draw a pirate on a matchbook."
Brauch said Regent's ranking is low because the school is young and still not widely known. He said he is confident that as Regent's statistical scores go up, peers' respect and higher rankings will follow.
And despite Maher's jibes about "Jesus freaks" graduating from "a televangelist's diploma mill," Brauch said Regent's Christian orientation and ties to Robertson were assets.
Students start class with devotions sometimes led by faculty, who are required to be Christian.
"We want to talk to our students about displaying the character of Jesus Christ, including humility, in the practice of law," Brauch said.
The Bible, God and Christianity are part of classroom discussions with topics including ethics, criminal law and legal history.
For example, the "Crime & Punishment" course looks at both the scriptural basis for "punishing and controlling sinners" and the historical basis of the criminal justice system, according to an online course description.
Robertson, Regent's chancellor and president, is well-known for making controversial statements, including advocating the assassination of Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez and suggesting that God punished Israel's former prime minister Ariel Sharon with a stroke.
But Brauch called Robertson "a man of vision" who pushed the law school to excel while staying out of routine management and curriculum.
Robertson, a Yale Law School grad, declined to discuss Regent's law school and Goodling.
But his conservative critique of modern American law is well-documented.
In a 1994 speech, he said "the judges in black robes have the secular priesthood of liberal culture" and helped impose radical beliefs on the nation.
In 2003, Robertson asked supporters to pray that God would remove three judges from the U.S. Supreme Court so conservatives could replace them.
In 2005, he cited unelected judges for the "virtual extirpation" of public expressions of faith. He also blamed "judicial fiat" for legal protection of abortion, homosexuality and Internet pornography.
Regent's law students routinely work with Robertson's conservative legal action organization, the Washington-based American Center for Law and Justice. The center, which has argued several cases before the Supreme Court, has offices in the law school building and has hired Regent graduates.
Jay Sekulow, the center's chief counsel, is so influential in the Bush administration that he helped the president choose Supreme Court nominees. Sekulow holds a doctorate in organizational leadership from Regent.
John Ashcroft, Bush's former attorney general, also teaches at Regent's law school.
The Princeton Review 2007 guide to law schools ranked Regent the second-most conservative among 170 law schools, based on law student surveys.
The reasons vary, however, for why students enroll at Regent.
Price could be a factor. Regent's law tuition for 2007-08 is $26,660. By comparison, tuition at George Mason University - a public institution with a law school ranked 34th in the nation - is $16,716 for Virginia residents and $28,532 for out-of-state students.
Location was key for Joe Migliozzi Jr., a 1994 graduate. Neither evangelical nor conservative, Migl iozzi chose Regent as it was the law school closest to his home in Norfolk.
Migliozzi, who is the lead death penalty defense attorney in southeastern Virginia, said Regent's law education became "incredibly well-balanced" under Brauch.
As for ideology, "there are a number of people attending that school who do so strictly because of what Pat Robertson represents to them," Migliozzi said. "I don't think that is a majority anymore."
Charlie Misseijer, a second-year student, said Regent offered a "good family atmosphere" for students - such as himself - who are married with children.
The Princeton Review ranked Regent Law the fourth-best in quality of life, which measures a school's aesthetics and sense of community.
Misseijer said Regent also is a national law school with graduates working in most states, including California, where he plans to live.
Academically, "We haven't had the most stellar record in the past," Misseijer said of the law school, but he thinks it is improving.
Misseijer, who hopes to practice education law, said his classmates are politically diverse.
"I encounter as many Democrats and libertarians as I do Republicans," he said.
Stephen L. Pfeiffer, a 2007 graduate from Wisconsin, chose Regent for what he called its top-notch faculty and its East Coast location.
Though a self-described Christian, Pfeiffer said he'd never heard of Robertson before enrolling at Regent.
He shrugged off the possibility that Robertson's controversial profile could color his degree or career.
"I'm going to change the world around me by demonstrating integrity and a good work ethic and that's what 'Christian leadership to change the world' means to me," Pfeiffer said.
Regent students and graduates were mixed over whether Goodling gave their school a black eye.
Pfeiffer questioned why the media had pounced on Goodling's law school education but not that of her embattled boss, Alberto Gonzales, also grilled by Congress.
"No one says, 'How does this reflect on Harvard,' though Attorney General Gonzales went there," he said.
Student Chamie Riley told The Boston Globe that Goodling strayed from Regent's ideal of "morally upright" students. "You should not be in a situation where you have to plead the Fifth," she said.
Bob McDonnell, a 1989 Regent graduate who was elected as Virginia's attorney general in 2005, declined to be interviewed about Goodling.
McDonnell - who as a candidate received $30,000 from Robertson, according to the Virginia Public Access Project - said in an e-mail that he had "watched with consternation as some groups have attacked Regent's graduates on the basis of religious beliefs."
Brent VanNorman, a 2000 graduate, acknowledged that "much of the world" regards Regent as "Pat Robertson's law school."
But VanNorman said his Regent background raised no eyebrows among co-workers at Hunton & Williams, where he ha s worked for seven years. The firm is the second-largest in Virginia.
"I've never once felt like I was in anyway handicapped by having gone to Regent," he said.
Statistics show Regent graduates are hired a bit less quickly than their peers at most Virginia law schools.
According to U.S. News & World Report, 89 percent of Regent's Class of 2005 had jobs nine months after graduation - about the same as those from Washington and Lee University's law school, and better than Appalachian's 72 percent.
The rate was 95 percent or better at George Mason University, the College of William and Mary, University of Virginia and University of Richmond.
Of Regent's 2006 graduates, 23 percent took government jobs, according to the university. Fourteen percent were hired by corporations, while academia, judicial clerkships and public interest agencies each took 6 percent, the university said.
The largest portion, 44 percent, joined private law firms.
Kaufman & Canoles, the largest law firm in Hampton Roads, has hired a couple of Regent alumni, said partner Charles V. McPhillips
McPhillips said Regent law had "come a long way," but was too young to match the distinction of far older schools, such as the University of Virginia.
He also said Kaufman bases hirings on more than school rankings. "We want to make sure we have the right person," he said, "not the right school."
Barry W. Lynn, a minister and lawyer who leads the liberal Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said he found Regent students eager to debate ideas when he visited the school.
He also said Regent's law students are not incompetent.
"If someone walks into a courtroom and says, 'Oh, the lawyer on the other side graduated from Regent, I don't have to prepare,' they're likely to have his or her head handed to them on a platter," Lynn said.
Steven G. Vegh, (757) 446-2417,
steven.vegh@pilotonline.com
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A new web ad for Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School makes clear that, for both students and faculty, "law is more than a profession, it is a calling" as everyone from Pat Robertson and Jay Sekulow to John Ashcroft and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonald hail the impact that the school has already had on society.
And while Robertson declares that his mission for Regent University is not simply to rival the likes of Harvard or Yale but "to rival Oxford and the Sorbonne in the Middle Ages as a school that can impact the whole society," students are dedicated to ensuring that they "use the law to further the kingdom of God" and "line up human law with what God wants it to be":
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Gingrich Intends to Pack Courts with Judges from Regent and Liberty University, Federalist Society
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Wed, 12/28/2011
Newt Gingrich appeared on Monday’s program of WallBuilders Live with David Barton and Rick Green, where Gingrich once again praised Barton’s right-wing pseudo-history and activism. In fact, Gingrich gave Barton credit for helping him develop his plan to assault the “judicial dictatorship” if elected president. He told Barton and Green that his plan is sending shockwaves through the “the secular left, which has been using the courts to replace the America we grew up in” by legalizing abortion, “driving God out of public life” and making same-sex marriages become “legitimized as if they were the same between traditional marriage between a man and a woman.”
Gingrich added that he would appoint judges in the mold of Robert George, the chairman of the National Organization for Marriage and a drafter of the Manhattan Declaration who has called people to defy Supreme Court decisions on issues like marriage that they disagree with, and graduates of Regent University and Liberty University, the schools founded by the far-right televangelists Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, respectively. Regent University absorbed the Oral Roberts University law program and teaches conservative Christian interpretations of the law, and the Liberty University School of Law even pressured students to disobey U.S. law if it conflicts with what they believe is “God’s law” in situations such as the Lisa Miller kidnapping case. Gingrich also pointed to the right-wing Federalist Society as a source for judicial appointments
Gingrich: What you have is, the secular left, which has been using the courts to replace the America we grew up in, the secular left which is desperately committed to Roe v. Wade and abortion, desperately committed to marriage between same-sex couples becoming legitimized as if they were the same between traditional marriage between a man and a woman, desperately committed to driving God out of public life, and they are suddenly faced with the possibility that we the people are going to take back our authority, that we are going to take back our rights, that we are going to redress the balance. The level of hysteria, I predict, will grow as they come to realize at the American Bar Association and elsewhere that this really is an effort to limit the power of lawyers to redesign America.
Green: Should you become president, is there a crop of attorneys and judges out there that understand history and understand originalism that you would have to choose from, in other words it’s got to be more than just you and Congress, what about good judges?
Gingrich: You start looking at people of the caliber of Robbie George of Princeton, you look at Regent University, you look at Liberty University, you start looking around and realizing there is a whole crop - Vince Haley of University of Virginia graduate who is a deeply, deeply committed Christian who clearly understands these kinds of issues - I think people would be surprised that the Federalist Society has many members who agree that we need a balance of power between the three, not a judicial dictatorship.
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Alliance Defense Fund To Launch Law School Aimed At Creating "Liberal Chaser" Attorneys
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 12:56pm
Religious Right leaders are coming together to form yet another law school to train future lawyers of the conservative movement. The right-wing Alliance Defense Fund is helping Louisiana College, a Southern Baptist institution, start the Paul Pressler School of Law, which will join Liberty University, Regent University and others in providing politicized training to the next generation of Religious Right lawyers.
Pressler’s ties to the Alliance Defense Fund will be similar to the Liberty University School of Law’s partnership with Liberty Counsel and the Regent University School of Law’s (originally Oral Roberts University’s Coburn School of Law) alliance with the American Center for Law and Justice. As Sarah Posner notes, such law schools intend to “teach the ‘biblical’ foundations of the law” and create “lawyers unafraid to inject their particular Christian beliefs, not only into the public square, but quite deliberately into legislation, policy, and jurisprudence.”
According to the National Law Journal, the new law school “is named for Paul Pressler III, a former Texas Court of Appeals judge who helped lead the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention during the 1970s.”
The founding dean of the Pressler law school, J. Michael Johnson, was previously senior counsel of the ADF and, according to his Townhall.com bio, has “provided legal representation to organizations such as Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America, Toward Tradition, the American Family Association, and Coral Ridge Ministries, and numerous family policy councils and crisis pregnancy centers.” In 2005, Johnson won the “Faith, Family and Freedom” award from Family Research Council president Tony Perkins for his work defending the Louisiana Marriage Protection Amendment, which placed a ban on same-sex marriage in the state’s constitution.
Yesterday on Today’s Issues, Perkins, who is a member of Pressler’s board of reference, spoke to Johnson about the new law school. Johnson said the law school would be “not unlike what our colleagues are doing at the Liberty University School of Law and the Regent University School of Law.” Perkins said, “This law school’s not going to be pumping out ambulance chasers, this is going to be pumping out liberal chasers, I mean we’re gonna track them down, wherever they are and we’re gonna defeat them, and if we can’t defeat them in the policy realm we’re gonna defeat them in the courts.” He added, “This law school is gonna be pumping out God-fearing, American-loving, family-defending attorneys”:
The choice of Louisiana College is no surprise. The school claims it “seeks to view all areas of knowledge from a distinctively Christian perspective and integrate Biblical truth thoroughly with each academic discipline” and believes “academic freedom of a Christian professor is limited by the preeminence of Jesus Christ, the authoritative nature of the Holy Scriptures, and the mission of the institution.”
In 2008 the school barred members of the Christian LGBT group Soul Force from appearing on campus. In his decision to bar the group, the college’s president cited a fake James Madison quote propagated by David Barton, which states that the U.S. government was based on “the Ten Commandments.”
Now David Barton is serving on the board of the law school.
Along with Perkins and Barton, Religious Right leaders on the board include Alan Sears of the Alliance Defense Fund, Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, Michael Farris of the Home School Legal Defense Association, Alveda King of Priests for Life, Religious Right luminary Tim LaHaye and his wife Beverly LaHaye of Concerned Women for America, Kelly Shackleford of the Liberty Institute and Reagan’s Attorney General Edwin Meese. Republican politicians including Reps. Rodney Alexander and John Fleming, former congressman Bob McEwen, and senatorial candidate and Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz are also on the board.
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Did Pat Robertson's Regent U Undercut Beliefs In 'Ex-Gay' Reparative Therapy?
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Wed, 07/20/2011
While reparative therapy, which intends to make gay and bisexual people straight, has already been thoroughly discredited and rejected by the American Psychological Association, among others, a new study from Pat Robertson’s Regent University may also shed doubts on the ability of people to transform from gay to straight. Warren Throckmorton points to a study by Regent University, “Characteristics of Mixed Orientation Couples: An Empirical Study” [pdf] in the Christian psychological periodical Edification, that may deal a heavy blow to the popular right-wing argument that people can just change their sexual orientation.
Pat Robertson, one of the country’s most prominent and harshest critics of gay rights and the LGBT community, is the founder and chancellor of Regent, which was originally named CBN University after his Christian Broadcasting Network.
A study from two Regent professors and four Regent doctoral candidates undermines a common refrain from the Religious Right that gays and lesbians can simply marry people of the opposite sex and become heterosexual. Many endorse “reparative therapy” for gays and lesbians, such as the ‘ex-gay’ counseling practiced at the clinic run by Rep. Michele Bachmann’s husband.
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AFA Video Uses Fake Quote From John Quincy Adams To Prove "The Biblical Foundations Of Government"
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 4:50pm
The American Family Association is promoting the lecture series “Biblical Foundations of Government with Erich Pratt,” a graduate of Pat Robertson’s Regent University and a conservative activist with Gun Owners of America. The group advertises that “the Bible tells us that all governing authorities are instituted by God and are responsible for the reward of good behavior and the punishment of evil,” and by watching the series “you’ll gain a strong, scriptural understanding of the basis of American civil government and your role as a citizen.”
But the one minute trailer prominently features an uncorroborated quote attributed to John Quincy Adams, “The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: ‘It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.’”
But where did Pratt find this unsubstantiated quote of Quincy Adams?
It was included in pseudo-historian David Barton’s America’s Godly Heritage series, one of the many examples of Barton misquoting or selectively editing the words of the Founding Fathers.
Ed Brayton writes that “the quote, to be blunt, is a fake”:
This is another textbook example of what happens when quotes are simply passed along and repeated without anyone bothering to check the original source to see if it's accurate. This is why, in scholarly documents, footnotes are used to provide specific documentation of the source of a quote. Let's follow the trail backwards and see where it leads. The quote is used by David Barton, who is nearly always the modern source of false quotations from the founding fathers. We'll see an example of another one below. Barton did not get it from the original documents, he got it from another book of quotations by William Federer called America's God and Country: An Encyclopedia of Quotations. So Federer got it from the original, right? Wrong. Federer's footnote is to a book by John Wingate Thornton from 1860. The Thornton book is full of quotations and footnotes locating the source of those quotes. But these words, attributed to John Quincy Adams, are not in fact a quote at all. The words belonged to Thornton. The words are not in quotation marks and there is no footnote giving a source. And no one has ever located an original source from Adams that contain those words, of even a similar sentiment to it. The quote, to be blunt, is a fake. Adams never said it. But this is an excellent example of what passes for historical scholarship among the Christian Nation proponents - the truth doesn't matter so long as something can be made to appear as supporting their position.
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Robertson's TV Network Bails Out His University
Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thu, 07/01/2010
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Pat Robertson's Regent University was in such dire financial straits that his CBN television network had to step in in order to keep it afloat:
Regent University is in dire financial straits, but it received help last week from the Christian Broadcasting Network, according to a report released on Wednesday by Moody's Investors Service.
M.G. (Pat) Robertson, the influential televangelist, founded both the network and Regent University, which was originally called CBN University. Both are located in Virginia Beach, Va., and Mr. Robertson is Regent's chancellor and president.
The university's fiscal footing began to slide in 2006, when its bond rating was downgraded because of deficits and weak fund-raising. Regent's money problems have accelerated since then. Annual operating deficits averaged 26 percent from 2007 to 2009, according to Moody's, and its endowment draw was a whopping 11 percent in 2008, more than double the normal payout rate.
While the balance sheet improved last year, thanks to increased tuition revenue from a growing undergraduate enrollment, Regent has a dangerously small amount of cash on hand to pay the bills.
Moody's reports that last year the university had only $1.3-million in liquid assets, which could cover roughly six days of operating costs. But Mr. Robertson's television network came to the rescue on June 24, relaxing restrictions on a $95-million gift it made to the university in 1992. The money had been classified as "permanently restricted net assets," but now Regent will be able to spend it freely, which will improve the university's liquidity crisis.
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