Thomas Jipping

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.

External links

* [http://www.zoominfo.com/people/jipping_thomas_1302433.aspx Thomas L. Jipping] Biographical and professional information.
* [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r105:1:./temp/~r105BrVYaa:: Impeachment Is Cure for Judicial Activism] Op-ed published in The Hill and subsequently entered into the Congressional Record.
* [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=21 WorldnetDaily] Author archive.
* [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june02/judges_2-7.html Shaping The Courts] Debate between Jipping and Marcia Greenberger from the National Women's Law Center
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200107/ai_n8959256 Should Ideology Matter?] Essay published in Human Events.
* [http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Wz5vaDf38icJ:www.fed-soc.org/Publications/hottopics/CEDAW.pdf+Thomas+L.+Jipping&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=11 CEDAW Treaty Would Undermine American Sovereignty] Policy paper co-written by Jipping and Wendy Wright and published by the Federalist Society.