![]() ![]() ![]() “Mike Farris’ lifelong work of safeguarding our freedoms will protect generations to come. She embodies the enduring commitment to justice that is the hallmark of the American spirit. ADF recognizes General Fitch for her significant efforts in publicly promoting and defending our most cherished freedoms and a principled jurisprudence through the active advancement of constitutional originalism. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. “General Fitch’s tireless efforts and courage to defend her state’s pro-life law led to the U.S. This year, I’m honored to present the Meese Award to two outstanding leaders: Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and Michael Farris. Constitution and the protection of our cherished freedoms. This award is presented to leaders who display unwavering courage and commitment to the U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese worked tirelessly to ensure constitutional fidelity through originalism, correctly viewing it as ‘critical to the protection of religious liberty.’ General Meese’s commitment to originalism transformed the law and changed constitutional discourse for generations. “The Meese Award is the highest award ADF bestows. This year’s award recipients are Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and Michael Farris, former CEO of ADF: Nobody should have to live that way.The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom CEO, President, and General Counsel Kristen Waggoner regarding ADF’s annual Edwin Meese III Originalism & Religious Liberty Award ceremony Thursday. She said, “You should never feel uncomfortable about going to church but when you have photographers there filming you when you leave … it’s not a comfortable life. Ursula told the Washington Post, “You know, they scavenge through our garbage.” And she complained that reporters were following the family to church. At the same time, her husband was criticized for accepting valuable gifts, including a set of gold and jade cufflinks from South Korea. Ursula was criticized for accepting a $150,000 bribe interest-free loan from a friend who later got a political job in the administration. She went to graduate school at Radcliffe and then went to work as a deputy probation officer.ĭuring Ed Meese’s confirmation hearing for attorney general, Meese and his whole family were closely scrutinized, and the family was accused of a range of financial misdeeds. Ursula won the “outstanding woman” award at the College of the Pacific in 1954. Ursula’s father was Oakland’s postmaster. Meese married his high school sweetheart, Ursula Herrick. She Was Also Accused of Financial Wrongdoing. There was no evidence that alcohol was involved in the crash.ĥ. They said that Scott was probably killed on impact. Police arrived on the scene and pulled Scott out of the car before it burst into flames. The car swerved off the highway, skidded over 300 feet, and crashed into a tree. One night, Scott was driving alone on the George Washington Parkway near McLean, Virginia when he apparently lost control of his car. He spent the summer working as a student intern for the Republican Senate Policy Committee on Capitol Hill. In 1982, Meese’s son Scott was a sophomore at Princeton. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images) Meese, along with former Secretaries of State James Baker III and Warren Christopher and other members of the commission released their findings and recommendations on the war powers of the president and Congress. Meese’s Son Died in a Car Crash When He Was 19 Years Oldįormer US Attorney General Edwin Meese III, member of the National War Powers Commission listens during a phone call prior to a press conference on Jon Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. He said that Meese was “at best incompetent and at worst corrupt.”Ĥ. Prosecutors believed that Meese was the middleman between Wallach and the Reagan administration, who helped make sure that Wedtech got the contracts.īut the prosecution could never prove that there was a link, and so Meese was never formally charged.Īt the end of the trial, the prosecution said it was ridiculous to say that Meese and Wallach’s friendship hadn’t helped Wedtech get the contracts. Wallach was charged with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Wedtech Corporation, a Bronx military contractor, in return for helping them get military contracts from the Reagan administration. Robert Wallach was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $250,000 for allegedly selling influence with the government. Meese was allegedly implicated - although never charged - in a high profile corruption and racketeering trial that centered around a Bronx military contractor. Meese and others from the Reagan administration ![]()
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