Obama v. the Constitution

The Obama administration declared war [Monday] on normalcy and the rule of law when Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that she was countersuing the state of North Carolina over its commonsense bathroom law.

Make no mistake about what is going on here: The Obama administration is unilaterally rewriting the law. It is attempting to force every state in the nation to comply with its radical demand that men and boys who “identify” as women and girls suddenly have a new “civil right” to use whatever bathroom they choose.

The left is on thin ice legally. No law Attorney General Lynch is citing supports her position. Neither the 1964 Civil Rights Act nor Title IX say anything about “gender identity.”

As attorney and columnist David French notes, the left has been trying — and failing — for years to change the law:

“For more than 20 years, LGBT activists have sought to amend federal law through the so-called Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a bill that would essentially add sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes within federal nondiscrimination law. For more than 20 years, LGBT activists have failed. ENDA hasn’t passed even when Democrats controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress.”

So what gives Obama and Lynch the right to impose their radical values on the residents of North Carolina and on school children across America?

I know the left doesn’t care about the Constitution. It believes that the ends justify the means.

But where are the conservatives in Congress? If we are to remain a nation of laws, this assault on the rule of law must be stopped!

That, however, requires so-called “leaders” on Capitol Hill to actually lead.

Anti-Semitism Rising

The media and politicians of both parties continue to fret over suggestions that we need a pause in Muslim immigration, should more thoroughly vet refugees from the Middle East or have additional surveillance of mosques.

They claim such remarks are fueling a backlash against Muslims — a backlash, which, as best as I can tell, never materializes in spite of repeated Islamic terrorist attacks around the world and in this country.

What is rising is raw anti-Semitism and physical attacks on Jews with hardly a word of protest from our media and political elites.

The New York Post reports that there have been several anti-Semitic attacks in recent weeks in the Crown Heights neighborhood of New York City.

• A Jewish student was punched in the face and attacked with a metal rod.
• A brick was thrown at a Hasidic bus driver.
• A bus belonging to a Jewish school was torched and destroyed. One 11 year-old boy has been arrested, but video indicates that several kids were involved in the arson.

According to the latest FBI statistics, 57% the victims of anti-religious hate crimes were Jews, while just 17% of anti-religious hate crime victims were Muslims.

I’m sure President Obama will immediately condemn this rising anti-Semitism. Waiting… Waiting … Waiting.

Here is some good news: Christians United for Israel (CUFI) now has more than three million members!

Pastor John Hagee, who founded CUFI just over ten years ago, said, “Never did we think we would reach this number of supporters in such a short time, but our growth is a direct result of the American people’s rock-solid commitment to Israel. I expect our elected officials to understand and reflect that support.”

As many of you know, I served on CUFI’s founding board and currently lead its Washington, D.C., lobbying office, CUFI Action Fund.

Democrat Divisions?

According to new data from Gallup, Democrats may be just as divided as Republicans this year. Gallup reports that 71% of Republicans say they will vote for Trump, while 21% say they will not. Among Democrats, 73% say they will vote for Hillary Clinton, while 21% say they will not.

Here is Gallup’s analysis: “Trump is no more dividing the Republican Party than Clinton is dividing the Democratic Party… We need to be somewhat cautious in assuming that Republicans across the nation are riven by a devastating rift because of divided emotions about Trump.”

Meanwhile, new polls by Quinnipiac University find Trump and Clinton are essentially even in two battleground states while Trump leads in one.

• Florida — Clinton 43%, Trump 42%.
• Ohio — Trump 43%, Clinton 39%.
• Pennsylvania — Clinton 43%, Trump 42%.