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Karen Lugo
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BIOGRAPHY
Karen Carpenter Lugo is Assistant Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. In this role, she works with Chapman Law School’s Dean John Eastman to coordinate student legal research projects and directs the Center’s litigation in support of Constitutional founding principles. She is also an adjunct professor at Chapman Law School and co-teaches the advanced Constitutional Law Clinic.
Karen is president of the Orange County Federalist Society lawyer chapter and works with the five Orange County law school student chapters. She is also Chair of the David Horowitz Freedom Center Orange County chapter and member of the Orange County Lincoln Club Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
Karen Carpenter Lugo has recently been appointed to the California Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights. Formerly, Karen was press liaison to Assemblyman Bill Leonard. She was 2005 Legislative Analyst for the California Republican Women.
Karen graduated from Chapman University Law School where she represented the school as an executive member of the Moot Court Honors Board and Negotiations competition team. She was also a contributing editor to the law school’s Nexus Law and Opinion Journal. Karen externed for Presiding Justice David Sills of the California 4th District Court of Appeal.
COMMENTARIES
Trying KSM: Courtroom Circus, Intelligence Secrets & Legal Games
By Karen Lugo | 11/19/09
The Blind Sheikh (Abdel Rahman) was successfully convicted in 1995 for bombing the World Trade Center and is now in prison for life. He had permanent resident status in the United States – though he was on the official US terrorist list – and this was prior to 9-11, so he was tried in U.S. civilian courts as a criminal defendant. His conviction and sentencing is Attorney General Holder’s terror trial standard and he holds it... read more »
7 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Obama and America Bow Deeply
By Karen Lugo | 11/16/09
The world leaders who bashed, trashed, and – what hurt most – mourned American influence at the recent Tel Aviv President’s Conference were matter of fact about America’s declining prestige and power. Obama’s many bows to transnational order serve to underscore their pronouncements of fallen - and still falling – respect for American institutions. Hearing national leaders and high officials from Macedonia,... read more »
10 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Fort Hood Terror: None Dare Call It Jihad
By Karen Lugo | 11/07/09
What would you call the act of a lone gunman who laid in wait for hundreds of shoppers at a farmer’s market in Kabul and then opened fire on them with two guns? And, if you learned that gunman had, over weeks, terminated his rental contract and given away his furniture (and leftover broccoli) while saying good-bye to his neighbors, would his murder of as many unarmed and unsuspecting infidels as he could kill seem to be the act of one who... read more »
4 Comments | Related Topics »National |
If Not Peace for Israel, Some Security?
By Karen Lugo | 11/05/09
Today, the UN is expected to vote on a resolution charging Israel with war crimes committed during Operation Cast Lead, the 2008 action in Gaza. Israel will be given 90 days to investigate the claimed crimes against humanity listed in the Goldstone Report. If Israel does not comply, the matter will be referred to the International Criminal Court in the Hague. The U.S. Congress voted yesterday to denounce this resolution. Yesterday, Israel... read more »
6 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Gaza Pull-Out Has Left Israel More Vulnerable
By Karen Lugo | 10/25/09
As part of a very small and highly informed delegation of Americans visiting Israel, I am one of the three who have never visited the country before. This aptly called mission, coordinated by Stand With Us, offers fascinating access to military, anti-terror, and geopolitical analysts. On just our first day, we departed Tel Aviv by helicopter -- our pilot had previously given the same aerial tour to pre-president George W. Bush -- for a... read more »
2 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Free Speech: UK Wins One, U.S. Loses Twice
By Karen Lugo | 10/18/09
Who would have thought that the US and UK would pass going in opposite directions on the free speech highway? This last week, while UK courts moved to restore speech rights, the US passed legislation that will restrict speech. A ray of light and hope for many who have watched politically correct darkness descend on the United Kingdom was the news that Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders’ name was removed from the “persona non... read more »
4 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Afghanistan: Victory will Require More Than a Troop Surge
By Karen Lugo | 10/10/09
There are many reasons for being wary of pat solutions for Afghanistan. We know that the terrain is hellacious and poses exponentially increased challenges and risk for our planners and our troops as compared to Iraq. Corruption is the coin of the realm. Infrastructure, both civic and civil – roads and sewers, schools and primitive government – is crude. Lack of education, tribal allegiance, and cultural communication barriers... read more »
9 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Whittier Law School Hosts Talk on Sharia Law
By Karen Lugo | 09/24/09
Credit is due Whittier Law School for scheduling, and then presenting, a meeting this week featuring former Egyptian Muslim, Nonie Darwish. It should not be notable for a law school to defend controversial speech and to host an uncomfortable cultural discussion in the face of opposition. But it is. The controversy over this meeting erupted when some students objected to anticipated content that would be critical of the Islamist religious-legal... read more »
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Message to President Obama: Truth Matters
By Karen Lugo | 09/21/09
Like Rep. Joe Wilson, many have had it with President Obama’s prevarications. His habit of dissembling is registering on the “lie scale” to degrees not attributed other politicians due to the knee-jerk frequency of his misrepresentations and the grand scope of the truth evasions. When Obama said in May of this year that he recognized the courage of Poland and the Czech Republic in agreeing to host missile defense sites, he... read more »
Post 9-11, Our Own Denial Is Now Biggest Threat
By Karen Lugo | 09/11/09
A few days ago I shared dinner with a beautiful young Muslim woman in Paris. Her lovely and serene smile does not reveal the grief she has known. In 2002, her 17-year-old sister, Sohane Benziane was drenched in gasoline and burned to death by a former boyfriend while his friends watched. His simple reason for planning and staging her brutal murder was that she would not obey him. When the police escorted him back to the crime scene for... read more »
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