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		<title>Unelected Judges Trying to Diminish Trump’s Executive Weight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> is in a public wrestling match with Chief Justice <strong>John Roberts</strong> and some of the federal judiciary.</p>
<p>Along with congressional lawmakers, Mr. Trump has called for impeaching several U.S. district judges who have issued orders blocking his administration from carrying out key policies.</p>
<p>Mr. Roberts says this imperils the independence of the judiciary, without which abuses of power could become routine.</p>
<p>Mr. Trump says that this is nonsense, that these judges have gone well beyond their authority to hear cases and are trying to dictate national policy.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/03/unelected-judges-trying-to-diminish-trumps-executive-weight/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>U.S. House Democrats Launch ‘Court Reform Now’ Task Force</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Mia Gradick </em></p>
<p>As Election Day approaches, the far Left, politicians and some of the most radical groups in America continue their attacks on the U.S. Supreme Court and our judicial system.</p>
<p>U.S. House Democrats recently announced a new “Court Reform Now” <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/scotus-expansion-term-limits-on-the-menu-for-new-house-task-force/" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="61bcd6cd9eb00044a676f96b">task force</a> that will work to advance legislation that would supposedly fix “political activism” at the U.S. Supreme Court.</p>
<p>The representatives say the U.S. Supreme Court has usurped “legislative and executive authority with activist decisions that disregard established precedent in order to achieve political results.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/06/u-s-house-democrats-launch-court-reform-now-task-force/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bank Your Vote or Go For Broke?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Nancy Hayes</em></p>
<p>Republicans’ new idea for winning the upcoming 2024 election is a nationwide campaign they’re calling “Bank Your Vote,” a <strong>Republican National Committee</strong> (RNC) strategy that is trickling back to the GOP in the states, including in Illinois.</p>
<p>The gist of it is, that local GOP officials are encouraging Republicans to <em>vote early in 2024</em>. The campaign is meant to maximize pre-Election Day voting through in-person voting, absentee voting, and ballot harvesting <em>where</em> <em>legal</em>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/08/bank-your-vote-or-go-for-broke/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: Counterfeit Justice: The Truth About Critical Race Theory</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>As we anticipate our upcoming 2022 Worldview Conference on February 26, this edition of Spotlight takes a look back at the 2021 conference. The focus for last year’s event was Critical Race Theory – a topic that is still very much in the news today. In her presentation, <em>Counterfeit Justice: The Truth About Critical Race Theory</em>, <strong>Angela Sailor</strong> outlines her opposition to the Marxist ideology movement and offers encouragement and practical suggestions for parents, and all Christians, who are ready to take a stand against federal overreach in education, identity politics, revisionist history and CRT.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/02/spotlight-counterfeit-justice-the-truth-about-critical-race-theory/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Biden Administration to Compile a List of Religious Vaccine Objectors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jorge Gomez</em></p>
<p>The Biden administration appears to be testing the idea of putting together a list of Americans who have religious objections to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.</p>
<p>Recently, the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/01/11/2021-28135/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">announced</a> a new records system that will store the names and “personal religious information” of all employees who make “religious accommodation requests for religious exception from the federally mandated vaccination requirement.”</p>
<p>But this is only one agency implementing this type of tracking system.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/01/biden-administration-to-compile-a-list-of-religious-vaccine-objectors/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>GOP Fails Pro-Life Voters by Refusing to Defund Planned Parenthood</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Carly Hoilman</em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">As the final weeks of the GOP-controlled Congress draw to a close, pro-life voters look on with great disappointment at the Republican politicians who failed to follow through on their most crucial promise: to defund Planned Parenthood. In about a month, Democrats will take over the U.S. House of Representatives and any hope of stripping the abortion giant of federal funding will pass away.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">With precious little time left in the lame-duck session, GOP congressional leaders have chosen to ignore the persistent urgings of pro-life leaders.</span>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/12/gop-fails-pro-life-voters-by-refusing-to-defund-planned-parenthood/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Get Involved Locally. You Might Just Save the Country.</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/09/get-involved-locally-you-might-just-save-the-country/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>Lest you think Illinois Family Action is being overly dramatic with that headline, you should know that we borrowed it from <em>The Daily Signal</em>, the news publication of the renowned <a href="http://www.heritage.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Heritage Foundation</a> in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/02/get-involved-locally-might-just-save-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In the article</a>, writer Slade O’Brien lays out an encouraging argument for Americans to get involved:</p>
<blockquote><p>While much of the media focuses on lawmakers in Washington clunking heads and getting little done, the common narrative has been that change is a pipedream.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/09/get-involved-locally-you-might-just-save-the-country/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump Picks Pro Life Heritage Foundation Alum to Lead HHS Civil Rights Office</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/04/trump-picks-pro-life-heritage-foundation-alum-to-lead-hhs-civil-rights-office/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Joshua Denton</em></p>
<p>In a move vigorously applauded by social conservatives and simultaneously denounced by same-sex “marriage” advocates, President Donald Trump has appointed <a href="http://www.heritage.org/staff/roger-severino">Roger Severino</a> to head the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Civil Rights.</p>
<p>Severino formerly served as the Director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society. As Director, his three main focuses where on religious liberty, marriage, and life issues.</p>
<p>His track record of defending religious liberty, natural marriage, and the sanctity of life go further back then his time at the Heritage Foundation.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/04/trump-picks-pro-life-heritage-foundation-alum-to-lead-hhs-civil-rights-office/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Will Obamacare Repeal Really Leave 30 Million without Insurance?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Repeal-and-Replace-Obamacare.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7004" src="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Repeal-and-Replace-Obamacare.jpg" alt="repeal-and-replace-obamacare" width="600" height="300" srcset="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Repeal-and-Replace-Obamacare.jpg 600w, https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Repeal-and-Replace-Obamacare-300x150.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p><em>Written by Dr. Brian Joondeph</em></p>
<p>Repeal and replace.  That was and still is the <strong>Donald Trump</strong> promise for Obamacare.  Congressional Republicans are ready to join in.  Not that they haven&#8217;t been trying for the past six years, with over 60 <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/groundhog-day-republicans-vote-repeal-obamacare">attempts</a> at repeal at the congressional level, all quickly dispatched by the Obama veto pen.</p>
<p>Now that there is a new sheriff in town, the veto threat is gone.  Repeal and replace may actually happen.  What will it mean?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/12/will-obamacare-repeal-really-leave-30-million-without-insurance/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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