Neil Gorsuch has only been on the Supreme Court for a short while, but he recently ignited the fire of liberty and broke 40 years of precedent when he, all alone, refused to join the SCOTUS “cert pool.” The cert pool was established in 1973 during the early days of the Burger Court, in order to efficiently review the near 8,000 petitions received by the court each term.

In practice, the petitions are apportioned among the court’s law clerks, who then circulate a memo to the justices recommending a grant or denial. The obvious problem is that this gives the power in these 8,000 cases to the law clerks instead of the Justices.

 In theory, this action allows third parties to unfairly influence a case through the clerks. That is not how the Supreme Court was designed to operate. Justice Gorsuch managed to stop that and said that it is not okay to pass off judgments to the discretion of legal clerks.

In December 2019, the Supreme Court issued a direct and final blow to the Islamic indoctrination of the young people in this nation.

The full panel of the court consisting of nine judges met to decide the fate of Islamic indoctrination in our American public schools. In a typical 5-4 decision, common sense won out so that we have sanity restored to our schools once again. The court was able to make the decision banning Sharia Law and Islam from being taught in classrooms because of the tie-breaking vote of the newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.

He said, “The government has no business being involved in religion, but this isn’t a government issue or a religious issue. This is about the judicial branch interpreting the laws as they apply to the teaching of religion. We should not be teaching any religions in the public schools of this country.”

This should have been a unanimous decision of 9-to-0, but it seems like the four liberal judges on the court do not regard the Constitution as the foundation of our nation’s values.

Our nation’s values are based on the Judea-Christian heritage, and today, these values are attacked by those who no longer hold to that same worldview. It is extremely important who President Trump appoints to the Supreme Court as guardians of the values on which this nation was founded.

Pray he is guided by godly wisdom to nominate persons who will uphold the values and worldview for now and generations to come.