Speaker Johnson: Call Off the August Recess

Is now the time for Congress to go out on recess? We've got rogue judges undermining the rule of law while a cadre of President Donald Trump's judicial and executive nominees waits in the wings for Senate approval.

We've got a Defense Department admitting to training Army specialists that all anti-abortion Christian groups are terrorists, and all they give is a toothless apology. We've got evidence of President Joe Biden's cabal colluding with the Justice Department and FBI to target parents speaking out about sexually abusive transgender school curriculum.

And whatever you might think of a House vote to release Jeffrey Epstein data, the grand jury files were already released last year.

President Trump can do only so much to unravel the Biden administration's war on conservative Christian pro-lifers, parents, and child victims of sex trafficking. After all, not only have parents and "pro-life groups" been labeled "domestic terrorists" by the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department, but the Justice Department and FBI sparked investigations, indicted, and imprisoned many of them — all while at the same time many of those same groups were physically attacked by apparent antifa domestic terrorists, crimes that went largely uninvestigated.

All departments under the purview of the executive branch are run as the president and his administration deem fit, for good or ill. But that reality by definition makes a president's actions largely temporary, easily undone by a potential Marxist Democrat successor.

What is more permanent are the actions of the legislative branch. How many more cans do we have time to kick down the road until after the midterms?

Think about it. If the midterm election follows traditional patterns, it is likely Republicans will lose their slim majority in the House in 2026. Translation: Any legislative work that Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader John Thune can do to safeguard the rights afforded to all citizens under America's constitutional rule of law must be done before the 2026 primary season begins early next year.

That gives Congress nine months maximum to do whatever can and should be done to sabotage the Marxist, anti-Christian, anti-capitalist machine seeking to undermine the world's last bastion of freedom. If there ever were a time to cancel a legislative vacation, it is now.

And what could Congress do to refortify the foundation of global civil liberty?

It could begin at the foundation with a Personhood Clarification Act, defining for the judiciary and all states that a "person" with respect to the 14th Amendment (equal protection under the law) "[extends] to all individual humans from fertilization to natural death irrespective of disability, disease or disorder."

This would be further enhanced by protecting all of America's most vulnerable citizens with a Human Dignity and Purpose of Medicine Act, "declaring that human dignity is derived from God, not government, Who makes each person inherently valuable. Therefore, medicine must never be used to mutilate, kill or hasten the demise of a human through egregious breaches in medical ethics such as, experimental vaccines, transgender hormone therapies or surgery, euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide, the unregulated production and sale of human embryos via IVF, the destruction of preborn boys and girls through abortion, etc."

Then they could move on to defining "traditional marriage" as of vital interest to the future of America wherein the next generation of stable citizens is born and raised to a male father and female mother. In that measure they could reaffirm the sacrosanct nature of parental rights over that of medicine, education, state, or any other bureaucratic employee or agency.

After that, they ought to dismantle the Department of Education for indoctrinating our children into atheistic and communistic ideology, exacerbating the generational moral rot with hypersexualized personnel and curricula. Included in this measure would be redemocratizing the education of children to parents with school choice.

Further, they could pass a bill that automatically withholds federal funding to liberal states like New York that actively oppress, defame, attack, refuse to protect when attacked, or otherwise discriminate against or encourage others to discriminate against Christians and churches as they peacefully walk out their beliefs and express their views in the public square. This could be buttressed by repealing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, known as the FACE Act, which was weaponized against peaceful anti-abortion activists, and repealing the Johnson Amendment, which is used to muzzle America's moral voice from the pulpit.

They could take strides in making America a global moral leader again by cleaning up the internet and with it the minds of Americans while protecting women and children from being victimized by the $100 billion porn industry by passing the Internet Obscenity Definition Act.

These and other initiatives would pave the way for a more humane America and stave off elected Nietzscheans from their ravenous will to absolute, godlike power, reinventing humanity in their own image.

But the 119th Congress has an opportunity of biblical proportions over the next nine months to "be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of the streets in which to dwell" (Is. 58:12).

Will they be an example to the average citizen and fight the good fight? Let Congress heed the warning against laziness from one of America's Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, "There will be sleeping enough in the grave."

Speaker Johnson: Call off the August recess.

The Rev. Jim Harden is CEO of CompassCare, an anti-abortion medical network based in Buffalo, New York. He is married with 10 children. Recently his medical center was firebombed by anti-abortion activists. Read more of his reports — Here.