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Ellis Washington is a former staff editor of the Michigan Law Review and law clerk at the Rutherford Institute. He is a professor of Constitutional Law, Legal Ethics, and Contracts at the National Paralegal College, a counselor at the American College of Education, and a founding board member of Salt and Light Global. Washington is a co-host of "Joshua's Trial," a radio show of Christian conservative thought. A graduate of John Marshall Law School and post-grad work at Harvard Law School, his latest law review article is titled, "Social Darwinism in Nazi Family and Inheritance Law." Washington’s latest book is a 2-volume collection of essays and Socratic dialogues – "The Progressive Revolution" (University Press of America, 2013). Visit his popular law/political blog, "EllisWashingtonReport.com, an essential repository dedicated to educating the next generation of young conservative intellectuals.
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An American oligarchy of 5

by Ellis Washington -- The court lacks the authority to impose its chosen remedy. ~ Justice Antonin Scalia Prologue The tyranny of the judicial branch was realized by Thomas Jefferson shortly after more…

Justices gone wild

by Ellis Washington -- To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. ~ Thomas Jefferson On June 12, the more…

Nietzsche and the damnation of ideas

by Ellis Washington -- For Heidegger and Nietzsche alike, good and evil were childish notions. What matters is will and choice. Self-assertion was the highest value. ~ Jonah Goldberg, "Liberal Fascism" (2007) more…

Obama, Bishop T.D. Jakes and me

by Ellis Washington -- For me it was almost déjà vu as I sat with my son. I remembered a little over 40 years ago watching the famous King speech with my more…

Obama, me and our pastors

by Ellis Washington -- This "constitutional scholar" [Obama] evidently sees the First Amendment as a license to "prevent the disruptive strains of fundamentalism from taking root in this country." ~ WND Editor more…

Fleecing Florida's landowners

by Ellis Washington -- No part of Florida is more exclusively hers, nor more properly utilized by her people than her beaches. ~ City of Daytona Beach v. Tona-Rona (1974) Outraged at more…

Birmingham on the brink

by Ellis Washington -- The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. ~ Sir Edmund Burke Many of my readership are aware that since January, more…

A critique of Dr. Martin Luther King

by Ellis Washington -- All I want from America is to be true to what you said on paper. ~ Martin Luther King As an American, as a black man, I really more…

Happy 60th birthday, Israel!

by Ellis Washington -- I am four things – I am an American, I am a black man, I am an academic without a home, and I am a lover of the more…