COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Jan LaRue: Dreams of Obama
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote a column appearing on Townhall.com on June 29, 2010.For several weeks the temperature in the hill country of central Texas has been in the 90's with high humidity. Daily clouds promise rain, but so far all they've produced is oppressive discomfort accompanied by [...]
Ken Klukowski: The Gun Rights Decision in McDonald v. Chicago
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on June 29, 2010.On June 28, the Supreme Court handed down the most consequential decision of this term in the historic gun-rights case, McDonald v. Chicago. Now the Second Amendment right to own a gun extends against every [...]
Ken Klukowski: Court Gets Federal Honest-Services Law Half-Right
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on June 28, 2010.On June 24, the Supreme Court sent back for a new hearings one of the Enron villains, Jeffrey Skilling, and two other unrelated defendants. The Court did this in part by severely curtailing the scope [...]
John Armor: Poor Richard's Internet
ACRU legal counsel John Armor wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on June 26, 2010.Let's raise two questions: What would Ben Franklin think of the Internet? And, what would be his opinion of efforts by the current Administration to censor Internet content, or even shut it down in "an emergency?"Events [...]
Ken Klukowski: DISCLOSE Act Attacks Freedom of Speech
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on WashingtonExaminer.com on June 24, 2010.Congress is considering a censorship law to muzzle conservative groups, one that exempts pro-Democrat groups from its requirements, called the DISCLOSE Act. This blatant assault on the First Amendment is worse in some respects than [...]
Ken Blackwell: Pushing Back for Truth
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on BigGovernment.com on June 24, 2010.Left wing blogs have their dander up. They're attacking me for saying that Elena Kagan favors cloning human beings. Once again, they are trying to confuse the public about what's involved in cloning humans. Just because [...]
Ken Blackwell: Markets and Morals
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on HuffingtonPost.com on June 20, 2010.There's an old joke about a Transylvanian cookbook. The recipe for an omelet starts off with this: "First, steal two eggs." If that note really appeared in some country's cookbook, don't look for constitutional government or [...]
Ken Klukowski: Supreme Court Ducks Question on Taking Property
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on June 21, 2010.The legal world has been focused on a constitutional property-rights case before the Supreme Court. Last week the Court handed down its decision, and disappointed those waiting for this decision by deferring the big question [...]
Ken Blackwell: Justice in the Capitol: The Philip Reid Room
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on the Townhall.com website on June 17, 2010.I had an extraordinary experience today. I was welcomed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to the U.S. Capitol. She was greeting those guests who had come to honor the memory of the slaves who [...]
Ken Blackwell: Stop START
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on the Townhall.com website on June 5, 2010.President Obama believes he has developed a closer relationship with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev than was enjoyed by his predecessor, George W. Bush. I am doubtful about that, but even if it is so, [...]
Ken Blackwell: Will Our Peace Prizewinner Lead Us Into a New War?
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on the Townhall website on June 3, 2010."During his campaign for the 2008 election, Mr. Obama promised to brand the mass killings genocide." That's how the left-wing BBC described one of Barack Obama's promises in his most successful election campaign of [...]
Ken Klukowski: First Battle Over Obamacare Begins
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on FOXNews.com on June 1, 2010.And so it begins.There are about a half-dozen constitutional lawsuits underway already against parts of President Obama's health care law. Most eyes are on the multistate case filed in Florida, joined by 20 states across [...]
Jan LaRue: So Many Holes, So Little Mud
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote a column appearing on Townhall.com on May 31, 2010."Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" Yes, dear daughter, I stuffed Bill Clinton in it.While the world waits to learn whether President Obama has successfully filled British Petroleum's hole in the Gulf of Mexico, [...]
Ken Klukowski: Obama's Dangerous Immigration Endgame
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on FOXNews.com on May 25, 2010.There's a reason President Obama refuses to secure the borders, and insists that the only way to stop illegals from entering this country is to give them all amnesty.This week Republican senators—including John McCain—told President [...]
ACLU, ABC News, and Senator Leahy Wrong on Miranda
The ACLU takes the position that Miranda warnings to terrorists cannot be revised except by the Supreme Court. Senator Patrick Leahy is too stupid to notice that this is an error when applied to terrorists. The ABC interviewer is too ill prepared to catch Leahy's error. And a false report [...]
Ken Blackwell: Dhimmicrats on the March?
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on the AmericanThinker website on May 25, 2010.What's a dhimmicrat, you say? It's not the same thing as a Democrat. A dhimmicrat is a person who, while not Muslim himself, nonetheless clears the path for shariah law to be adopted and [...]
Ken Klukowski: Supreme Court Continues to Impose Morality on States
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on May 19, 2010.Monday's Supreme Court decision holding that sentencing an underage person to life in prison is unconstitutional is yet another disturbing example of judicial activism. More than simply another run-of-the-mill activist decision, the Court has reached [...]
Robert Knight: With Arizona, You Get Egg Roll on Your Face
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing on AmericanThinker.com on May 20, 2010.Oh, that Arizona. What a handy thing to have in your transnational quiver for those times when you want to identify with the tyrants of the world."We brought it up early and often," State Department official [...]
Walter Williams: Immigration and Liberty
ACRU Policy Board Member Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing on the Townhall.com website on May 19, 2010.My sentiments on immigration are expressed by the welcoming words of poet Emma Lazarus' that grace the base of our Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses [...]
Peter Ferrara: Liberals Gone Wild
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on the American Spectator website on May 19, 2010.Even though the Constitution does not include the words "separation of church and state," liberals have long treated that concept as a hallowed fundamental doctrine of constitutional law. But no more. With the [...]