On the show today, Kerby welcomes in-studio lawyer and author, Jim Gash and Henry T. Jim is the author of the book, Divine Collision: An African Boy, an American Lawyer, and Their Remarkable Battle for Freedom. Together they will tell us about their journey from two different continents to their joint battle for freedom.
In the second hour, we talk convention of states and joining this discussion in-studio is Dr. Merrill Matthews who is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation and Michael Farris, Chancellor of Patrick Henry College and Chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association joins in by phone.
Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and, in 2009, Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud).
He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network.
Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas
President Obama has done more to ignite interest in the U.S. Constitution than any other president in recent memory—though not in a good way. President “I have a pen and a phone” has repeatedly tried to bypass the constitutional process, encouraging millions of Americans to ask if there is a way to rein him in and restore the balance of federalism.
And they’ve found one in Article V of the Constitution.
Farris graduated from Western Washington State College, magna cum laude, with Bachelors in Political Science, followed by a Juris Doctorate from Gonzaga University (with honors). At Gonzaga, Farris was the Articles Editor of the Law Review, and was the winner of the Linden Cup Moot Court Competition. Recently, Farris earned an LL.M. in Public International Law from the University of London.
Farris has specialized in constitutional appellate litigation. In that capacity Farris has argued as lead counsel before the Supreme Court of the United States, eight federal circuit courts of appeals, and in the state Supreme Courts and appellate courts of thirteen states. Additionally, Farris is the author of numerous amicus briefs before the United States Supreme Court.