Thomas Jipping
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Thomas L. Jipping is Vice-President for Legal Policy and Director of the Center for Law & Democracy at the Free Congress Foundation. In addition to directing the Judicial Selection Monitoring Project at the Paul Weyrich-led D.C. think tank he also serves as Senior Fellow in Legal Studies for Concerned Women for America, a female-led, Christian-oriented policy organization.
Some of his past positions include service as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice, a clerkship with Judge William D. Hutchinson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as well as student clerkships with Antonin Scalia-when he sat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit-and Senior Judge Douglas W. Hillman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
In addition to lecturing on policy and constitutional questions Jipping is also a prolific commentator-and exponent of federalist and originalist thought-in various media. His legal and political analysis has appeared in the Washington Times, Legal Times, Investor's Business Daily, Human Events and the National Law Journal.
He has made appearances-usually in the form of a conservative commentator/analyst-on ABC's Good Morning America and Nightline, NBC's Today Show, and the Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
Thomas Jipping holds a B.A. from Calvin College as well as an M.A. in Political Science and J.D. from SUNY-Buffalo.
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- Thomas L. Jipping Biographical and professional information.
- Impeachment Is Cure for Judicial Activism Op-ed published in The Hill and subsequently entered into the Congressional Record.
- WorldnetDaily Author archive.
- Shaping The Courts Debate between Jipping and Marcia Greenberger from the National Women's Law Center
- Should Ideology Matter? Essay published in Human Events.
- CEDAW Treaty Would Undermine American Sovereignty Policy paper co-written by Jipping and Wendy Wright and published by the Federalist Society.
