Ed Meese hailed for defending freedom

Ed Meese hailed for defending freedom:

"On July 9, 1985, Ed Meese dropped a constitutional bombshell on Washington, D.C. that shook the foundations of the federal judiciary all the way to the Supreme Court.

Meese's words in a speech before the national convention of the American Bar Association – proclaiming that judges should be 'expected to resist any political effort to depart from the literal provisions of the Constitution' – exploded upon the judiciary's liberal stronghold built by a generation of activist judges and sparked anew a fire of commitment to the Founding Fathers' vision of the Constitution.

Edwin Meese III served as President Ronald Reagan's top policy advisor and the nation's 75th attorney general, and to a group of distinguished Americans gathering tomorrow to honor him, Meese is a hero-like figure.

In a series of exclusive interviews with WND, a variety of leading conservatives praised Meese as responsible for 'saving' Reagan's presidency, masterminding the 1980's economic boom, influencing the appointment of over half the federal judiciary, reshaping the Supreme Court by fighting for the confirmation of 'originalist' justices like John Roberts and Samuel Alito, championing religious liberties and rescuing the Constitution from the dustbin of judicial history."