The Constitution contains numerous guarantees of the rights of citizens, but it is only as good as the courts that interpret it. President Trump pledged to appoint nominees to the Courts who would uphold the Constitution and nominated judges to fill many of the lower federal court vacancies. While the Supreme Court gets the major attention, the lower courts hold a far more important position today since many cases never make it to the Supreme Court. If lower court judges respected the Supreme Court, once the Supreme Court upheld your rights, you would be safe because the lower courts would uphold that decision in any cases before them. However, since judges are appointed for life, many of these positions are held by liberal judges appointed by former President Obama who had eight years to fill vacancies that occurred. Since liberal judges do not respect the Constitution or the Supreme Court, many continue to openly violate decisions of the Supreme Court. Rights guaranteed by the Constitution and upheld by the Supreme Court are not being respected by the lower federal courts placing American citizens in general and those who hold conservative values in particular at risk. The decisions of the lower court stand until they are overturned by the Supreme Court but many cases do not make it to the Supreme Court or take a long time to get there. When an investigator uncovered evidence that Planned Parenthood was selling body parts of aborted fetuses in violation of federal law, the attorney general of his State prosecuted him for violating the privacy of Planned Parenthood, but has never moved against Planned Parenthood for violating the law. The State courts convicted the investigator but the Supreme Court overturned the conviction. The courts then tried him again in violation of the Supreme Court ruling and convicted him, but it was again overturned by the Supreme Court. The courts have now convicted him again in violation of the Supreme Court ruling. Many of our courts are being used to prosecute the innocent while failing to prosecute the guilty. It is time we returned a President to office that will appoint judges that uphold the Constitution and federal law, and elect representatives that will approve the appointments because it does no good to appoint them if they are not approved by Congress. We cannot do anything about current judges since they are appointed for life, but we can guarantee new judges appointed will uphold the Constitution and federal law by who we elect to office.