Two Honorable Justices
The U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to hear a critical First Amendment case effectively grants government schools judicial backing to censor student speech,…
James M. Odom
Writing for IFI since 2021 11 articles
About James M. Odom
James Odom is a Senior Policy Analyst for the Illinois Family Institute and Illinois Family Action.
God used His Church and Godly legal mentors and pastors to forcefully direct James passion and vocation toward in depth study and understanding of the relationship between civil government and God's Church from the very beginning of law school in 1992. James graduated from Indiana University School of Law with a J.D. In 1995, and has been admitted to practice law in several jurisdictions over the following 25 years, including 5 years in the legal department at Focus on the Family.
He and his wife of 18 years are blessed to be the parents of 4 children. He has served as Republican Precinct Committeeman, has run twice for local public office, and is an ordained Ruling Elder in his local congregation of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America.
Articles by James M. Odom
The Brilliance of the Electoral College
After the signing of the Constitution in September 1787, Elizabeth Willing Powel asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a…
The Mississippi Compromise of 2022
A Lawless Decision Finally About to Be Overruled The U.S. Supreme Court appears to be poised, absent dereliction of duty or cowardice,…
Executive Order Makes Biden Regime Lone Wolf in Tyrannical Vaccine Mandates
The United States was legally founded upon the principle of limited government, under which at the time of the founding, the federal…
Resources to Fight Tyrannical Vaccine Mandates
Vaccines are not a threat to liberty. However, being forced to submit to taking medicine and/or a medical procedure that is both…
America’s Critical Need to Be Less Democratic
All of America's legislative bodies should voluntarily change their rules to increase voting requirements for passing legislation to a super-majority. Readers may…
Illinois Pro-Life Lawmakers Given National Voice to Overturn Roe v. Wade
A nationwide group of state legislators and attorneys have crafted an amicus (friend of the court) legal brief in support of the…
IFI Joins Friends of the Court in Rutledge v. Little Rock Family Planning Services
On January 22, 1973, U.S. Supreme Court Justices William Rehnquist and Bryon White rightly identified in their dissents that Roe v. Wade…
Washington D.C. Statehood is Unconstitutional
On Thursday, April 22nd, 216 members of a powerful special interest faction within the U.S. House of Representatives, the Democratic Party, passed…
Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church v. Pritzker
While a number of cases have reached the U.S. Supreme Court challenging government pandemic restrictions that limit churches’ and members free exercise…
Important Litigation Against Porn & Sex Traffickers
On February 12, 2021, two anonymous plaintiffs filed a class action complaint in Alabama Federal Court against pornographer MG Freesites, an international…