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by Gerald Walpin (Author)
They're on a "rampage," writes Gerald Walpin, one of the country's top litigators, in his astonishing new book, The Supreme Court Vs. The Constitution.
And it takes just five of them to lay waste to the rights of 300 million Americans.
A mostly bare majority of justices of the United States Supreme Court, the only judicial body enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, have spent recent decades reversing, revoking and rescinding the fundamental guarantees of that sacred document to the people of America.
They've freed thousands of murderers, rewritten sound and time-tested laws, crippled religious liberty, enabled the spread of pornography and immorality. They have ignored the letter and spirit of the Constitution and its amendments in grabbing power that rightfully belongs to the Executive and Legislative branches, the states - and, ultimately, the people.
Gerald Walpin, who prosecuted criminals and pursued crooked bureaucrats as a federal Inspector General nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and, many years before, as a top prosecutor for the Department Of Justice in New York, dramatically sets out the deliberate push by a bare majority of Supreme Court justices to usurp the role of our country's elected lawmakers and executives.
The justices time and again seize the rightful authority of those we elect to represent us, and with unchallengeable arrogance undermine the "inalienable rights" that long have made the United States the world's brightest beacon of freedom, democracy, and personal security.
According to Mr. Walpin, who also served for many years as head of litigation at a noted New York law firm, the Framers of the Constitution and those who drafted and championed the Bill of Rights and the 17 additional amendments carefully considered and meant every word they wrote. But the "activist" justices of the Supreme Court pay little heed to their language or intent as they "legislate from the bench" and deprive us of rights that our Constitution was adopted to protect.
His book carefully lays out the history of court rulings, providing quotations from the justices' own writings and dramatic actual facts from cases, to document each illegitimate assumption of power by activist justices. Yet it is so clearly and simply written that one does not have to be a lawyer to see unequivocally where the fault lies.
Elegantly crafted and flawlessly researched, The Supreme Court Vs. The Constitution will have Americans on their feet, demanding that these justices obey and uphold the laws of this land, and that future appointees to the Court not be confirmed unless they pledge to do so. Gerald Walpin's work will spark a revolution in thought about the Supreme Court, and a new outpouring of appreciation for the brilliant legacy of America's Founding Fathers.
"Gerald Walpin, an experienced New York litigator, has written a provocative and insightful study, accessible to the lay reader" that "offers one concrete example after another of 'constitutional' decisions more firmly rooted in the beliefs of the judges who wrote them than in the [Constitution] they purport to interpret."
- Hon. Michael Mukasey
Former U.S. Attorney General and Former Chief Judge of U.S. District Court in New York
"Gerald Walpin injects a breath of fresh air ... with his bracing critique [that] asks why a mere five Justices ... should be allowed to replace the intentions of the writers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution with their own preferences. Everyone who worries about the loss of the Framers' vision at the hands of an imperial judiciary will want to read this book."
- John Yoo
Professor, Constitutional Law, University of California (Berkeley) and Former Assistant U.S. Attorney General
Author Biography
A prominent New York attorney, Gerald Walpin was nominated to the post of Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service by President George W. Bush, confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn into office on January 8, 2007. He lead the Office of Inspector General (OIG), an independent Federal agency charged with oversight over the taxpayer supported Corporation and its service programs, including AmeriCorps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and Senior Corps, serving in this role until 2009.
As the Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Gerald Walpin pursued a vigorous effort to investigate and prosecute all persons who betray the public's trust by defrauding the Corporation and its programs.
A New York City native, Mr. Walpin graduated from College of the City of New York in 1952. He earned his law degree, cum laude, in 1955 from Yale Law School, where he was managing editor of the Yale Law Journal. From 1957-60, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General.
His career included a five-year stint as Chief of Prosecutions for the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he successfully prosecuted a number of high-profile cases. He spent more than 40 years as senior partner and, more recently, of counsel to New York-based Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.
Mr. Walpin has represented a wide range of clients, including large public corporations, securities brokerage firms, accounting firms, law firms, banks in lender liability claims, and individuals, both American and foreign, in securities litigations, employment litigations, criminal prosecutions, and investigations by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Both as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and in his law firm, he was frequently called upon to investigate fraudulent conduct.
Included in the published compilation "The Best Lawyers in America," Mr. Walpin served from 2002-2004 as president of the Federal Bar Council, the association of attorneys practicing in the Second Circuit Federal courts. In 2003, he was honored with the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for outstanding professionalism as an attorney and for mentoring younger lawyers.
Walpin and his wife Sheila, married for more than 50 years, have three children and six grandchildren.
