Undemocratic: Rogue, Reckless and Renegade: How the Government is Stealing Democ

Description: Undemocratic by Jay Sekulow Synopsis coming soon....... FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Jay Sekulow—one of Americas most influential attorneys—explores a post Obama landscape where bureaucracy has taken over our government and provides a practical roadmap to help take back our personal liberties.Jay Sekulow is on a mission to defend Americans freedom. The fact is that freedom is under attack like never before. The threat comes from the fourth branch of government—the biggest branch—and the only branch not in the Constitution: the federal bureaucracy. The bureaucracy imposes thousands of new laws every year, without a single vote from Congress. The bureaucracy violates the rights of Americans without accountability—persecuting adoptive parents, denying veterans quality healthcare, discriminating against conservatives and Christians for partisan purposes, and damaging our economy with job-killing rules. Americans are bullied by the very institutions established to protect their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our nations bureaucrats are on an undemocratic power trip. But Sekulow has a plan to fight back. We can resist illegal abuse, we can reform a broken system, and we can restore American democracy. This book wont just tell you how to win, it will show you real victories achieved by Sekulow and the American Center for Law and Justice. Unless we can roll back the fourth branch of government—the most dangerous branch—our elections will no longer matter. Undemocratic is a wake-up call, a call made at just the right time—before its too late to save the democracy we love. Author Biography Jay Sekulow is widely regarded as one of the foremost free speech and religious liberties litigators in the United States, having argued twelve times before the US Supreme Court in some of the most groundbreaking First Amendment cases of the past quarter century. As chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), he is a renowned constitutional attorney, an international expert on religious liberty, and an acclaimed and distinguished broadcaster. Jay is a passionate advocate for protecting religious and constitutional freedoms with an impressive track record of success. His steadfast determination and commitment to protecting these freedoms is expansive with his work resulting in a lasting impact across America and around the world. He is a member of President Donald Trumps legal team, and he is also a popular talk radio host and regularly appears on major media, including Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and other outlets. Review "Jay Sekulows alarming and inspiring Undemocratic is a must-read for anyone who wants to restore American greatness." -- Sean Hannity"If you read just one book this year, read Undemocratic—and prepare to have your eyes opened to the true crisis facing our republic." -- John Ashcroft, former United States Attorney General"Jay Sekulow is one of the top lawyers for religious freedom in the United States." * Townhall Magazine *"The American Center for Law and Justice is the leading advocacy group for religious freedom." * Bloomberg Businessweek * Review Quote "Jay Sekulows alarming and inspiring Undemocratic is a must-read for anyone who wants to restore American greatness." Excerpt from Book Undemocratic 1 ONE DAY IN MAY I have a unique vantage point from my office in Washington, D.C. My building, in the heart of Capitol Hill, is directly across the street from the Supreme Court of the United States. The Justices literally drive by my office each day that the court is in session. From my window I can see the chambers where the Justices and law clerks spend their days crafting legal opinions that impact all of us. There have been many nights when I have seen the glow of the lights emanating from those chambers as the final touches are put in place. It is an awe-inspiring location. From the white marble columns on the exterior to the expansive courtroom where the oral arguments take place, the building represents power and stability. One of the most impressive aspects of the building is the depiction of great lawgivers carved into the marble. Each time I enter the courtroom, I glance up at those lawgivers, including Moses holding the Ten Commandments written in Hebrew. For three decades I have had the privilege of arguing cases before the Supreme Court representing a wide range of legal issues including: religious liberty, prayer and Bible clubs in public schools, free speech, and defending the unborns fundamental right to life, and campaign finance reform. I even argued a case before the Supreme Court involving the Ten Commandments Monument in Utah. My team and I won 9-0. Admittedly, it is one of my favorite cases, as I was able to reference the Supreme Court buildings own depiction of Moses holding the Ten Commandments. The judiciary, our third branch of government, is powerful. After all, the Supreme Court interprets the Constitution and that impacts each of us. It is not, however, the most powerful branch. From my office, I also have a great view of the Capitol dome. I have often taken guests up to the top floor of our building to view the Capitol. The lit dome in the evening sends the clear message that legislators are handling serious business. The Senate office buildings are just across the street from the front door to my building. In fact, after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the security perimeter was moved directly in front of our offices. When the anthrax attack took place days after 9/11, the surveillance devices and air monitoring equipment were placed just a few feet from our main entrance. The security in the area is still very tight, as it should be--these are the buildings that house our legislature, our second branch of government. This branch represents the people, and its where our laws are constructed. And yet, as powerful as the legislative branch of government is, it is not the most powerful branch. I can hop into a cab and after a short five-minute drive I am at the White House. I have had the incredible privilege of being in the Oval Office, discussing major issues with President Bush, ranging from judicial nominations to terrorism. It is an experience that is hard to put into words. When you are seated next to the president of the United States, the commander in chief of our armed forces, you realize quickly that what takes place in that office not only impacts each of us, the impact is felt around the globe. The executive branch of government and the president are powerful. There is no doubt about it. But I submit to you that the executive branch is not the most powerful. The most powerful branch of our government is located around the corner from the Supreme Court building, a few streets over from the Capitol, and a couple of blocks from the White House. These buildings are scattered around D.C. house agencies--the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, the Labor Department, and many others. These agencies are run by bureaucrats. And these unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats destroy our liberty and threaten our democracy. We are in serious peril because of this--the most powerful branch of government we did not even learn about in high school civics class. The problem is, the Constitution does not provide for a fourth branch of government. Yet we have one. We have created an unconstitutional, self-sustaining monster that is swallowing our democracy. Our constitutional republic hangs in the balance. I keep a diary with me where I note significant events in my legal practice. My entry on May 10, 2013, was a game changer. The first email--marked "URGENT"--hit my inbox at 10:17 a.m., just minutes before my radio program goes live on air. The message was simple: Lois Lerner, then the head of exempt organizations at the Internal Revenue Service, had "apologized" to conservative and Tea Party groups for intentionally subjecting them to heightened IRS scrutiny. My first feeling was vindication. More than a year earlier, dozens of Tea Party and other conservative groups had contacted me, all telling me the same story. The IRS was delaying their tax exemption applications and requiring them to answer--under penalty of perjury--appallingly broad questions, questions that violated the constitutional rights of American citizens. The IRS delayed at least one pro-life group because the agency subjectively determined1 that the groups "presentations make substantial use of inflammatory and disparaging terms and express conclusions more on the basis of strong emotional feelings than of objective evaluations"--as if the liberal nonprofit organizations like Planned Parenthood or the American Civil Liberties Union dont make arguments "on the basis of strong emotional feelings." We took the cases, notified the IRS of our representation, and publicly called on Congress to take action, by holding hearings to investigate IRS abuse. In response, the IRS denied all wrongdoing, and the mainstream media of course backed the Obama administrations taxing agency, with the New York Times even claiming that in scrutinizing the Tea Party, the IRS was merely doing its job.2 But with Lois Lerners apology, everything changed--for a few days, anyway. Every major network carried the apology, every major newspaper wrote articles and analyses, and even President Barack Obama went to the White House podium and expressed his deep outrage. And the IRSs actions were outrageous. In fact, they were criminal. And, for a time, the Obama administration seemed to agree. Within days of the IRSs apology, Attorney General Eric Holder declared that the IRSs conduct was "outrageous and unacceptable" and ordered a criminal investigation.3 The conduct of the IRS was, in fact, "outrageous." Over a period of years, the IRS singled out conservative and pro-life individuals and organizations for extraordinary audits, unconstitutional questioning, years-long delays in processing applications, and selective leaks of private information. Ultimately, we discovered the IRS went so far as to try to collude with the Department of Justice to prosecute conservatives, to attempt to "piece together" (to borrow a term from an actual IRS email4) prosecutions of American citizens without a single shred of evidence or a single specific complaint of illegal activity. On May 10, we knew only part of the story, but we knew enough to know the IRS was out of control. Our work on several IRS cases revealed that before approving conservative groups for the same nonprofit status long granted to large liberal organizations like Planned Parenthood, MoveOn.org, and the ACLU, the IRS was not only delaying applications for years, it was asking questions that were themselves unconstitutional. * It wanted to know the names of children tutored by a constitutional education nonprofit. * The IRS wanted log-in information and passwords for conservative websites. * It wanted to know the identity of donors, even when the law allowed donors to remain anonymous. * It demanded to know the details of all communications between conservative nonprofits and any elected official, demanding even details of "indirect" communications (whatever those were). * It demanded an accounting of all the nonprofit work of even family members of Tea Party leaders, including their membership on church boards.5 It attacked pro-life speech as "propaganda," and it demanded to know the content even of pro-life prayers. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. My first job out of law school was in the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service. My experience taught me that the IRSs attacks on the conservative movement went straight to the top of the agency. In her apology,6 Lois Lerner claimed that the misdeeds were the fault of "line" workers in Cincinnati--low-level employees. But we had in our possession letters from IRS offices in California and in Washington, D.C. Some of these letters were signed by Lois Lerner herself. Lerner also implied that the IRSs wrongdoing had stopped, that when the agency learned what the low-level workers were doing, it called a halt to all improper activity. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, even as Lois Lerner spoke, multiple conservative groups were still waiting f Details ISBN1501123084 Author Jay Sekulow Short Title UNDEMOCRATIC Language English ISBN-10 1501123084 ISBN-13 9781501123085 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 353.46 Year 2016 Imprint Howard Books Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Pages 336 Subtitle Rogue, Reckless and Renegade: How the Government is Stealing Democracy One Agency at a Time Publication Date 2016-02-02 NZ Release Date 2016-02-02 US Release Date 2016-02-02 UK Release Date 2016-02-02 Publisher Simon & Schuster Audience General AU Release Date 2016-02-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97290063;

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