COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Government Sponsorship of Religious Rituals Found To Be OK — If You've Got the Right Religion, Anyway.
Whether a public college is impermissilbly entangled with religion would appear to depend on the college — and even more on the religion. In her column today in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Katherine Kersten discusses what gives every appearance of being a double standard when the Minneapolis Community and Technical College [...]
Ninth Circuit Helps ACLU 'Cleanse' Library of Worship
The facts, but not the legal conclusions, for this post come from an article on 23 March in the Washington Examiner by Quin Hilyer. It recited that the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco had just reversed a federal trial court in Contra Costa County in favor [...]
Can't We All Just Get Along?
Much note has been taken, and understandably so, of the 5,000 mile trip by the Speaker of the House to visit and provide photo-ops for President Assad -- the dictator of a country that both the Bush and Clinton administrations have found to be a state sponsor of terror. But [...]
ACLU Displays its Paranoia
ACLU Displays its ParanoiaThe facts, but not the legal conclusions, for this article come from an article in the Boston Globe on 26 March. The title of the article is, "Inhumane raid was just one of many (Endgame)." It begins with a reference to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [...]
National Review: ACRU's Ferrara Weighs in on DC Gun Ban Case
Over at National Review Online, Jennifer Rubin has a great article in her Opening Shots column on the Parker v. District of Columbia case and the consequent prospects for the Second Amendment. Peter Ferrara, general counsel of the ACRU, is quoted extensively. Click here to read.Be sure also to read [...]
Welcome to the ACRU Blog
Welcome to the blog of the American Civil Rights Union. Here we will provide commentary to important news of the day concerning the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the civil rights of all Americans. We will also comment on the latest outrages perpetuated by the ACLU and other so-called civil [...]
Peter Ferrara, Legal Director
Peter Ferrara is Legal Director and serves as General Counsel for The American Civil Rights Union ACRU). He also is currently the Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy at the Institute for Policy Innovation and is a Senior Fellow at the Free Enterprise Fund. In addition to various speaking engagements [...]
John Armor, Legal Counsel to the ACRU
John Armor is Legal Counsel to The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU).A graduate of Yale University (1964) and Maryland Law School (1970), John has practiced law in the United States Supreme Court since 1974. He has also completed course work, but not yet the dissertation, for a Ph.D. in Public [...]
William G. Otis
Bill Otis is the former director of legal affairs for The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU).For nearly two decades Bill was a federal prosecutor under administrations of both parties, and personally argued over a hundred cases in the courts of appeals. He has also held posts as Counselor to the [...]
Eric F. Langborgh
Eric Langborgh is the former Director of Development for The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) and currently works for ClearWord Communications Group, Inc.Eric worked for six-plus years at the Bill of Rights Institute, a national educational non-profit, where he served as the Institute's Director of Donor Relations. His early work [...]
Sheldon Kinsel, Consultant
Sheldon Kinsel is a political scientist and public policy consultant. He serves the American Civil Rights Union as a consultant and as editor of their Defend Scouting Newsletter.Sheldon has worked in Washington, D.C. as a staffer to a United States senator and to two congressmen in a variety of positions, [...]
Horace Cooper, Senior Fellow
Horace Cooper is a Senior Fellow at the American Civil Rights Union, making regular appearance on radio and television discussing constitutional rights and the Supreme Court.A writer and legal commentator, Horace previously was a visiting assistant professor of law at George Mason University. He also has been Counsel to the [...]
Opening Shots
National Review OnlineMarch 29, 2007 7:00 AMThe striking down of the D.C. gun ban may be the beginning of a larger battle.By Jennifer RubinIt’s not every day a federal circuit court rocks the political, legal, and academic worlds. But on March 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District [...]
Peter Ferrara: Conservative Win: Second Amendment victory in D.C
The conservative movement won an historic victory last Friday. In the case of Parker v. District of Columbia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does, indeed, protect a right for individual citizens to keep and bear arms for self-defense and other legal uses.
ACRU Applauds Victory in D.C. Gun Case
The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) applauds the decision just handed down by the U.S. Circuit Court for the D.C. Circuit concerning the Second Amendment to the Constitution. This 2-1 decision struck down as unconstitutional the D.C. City Council's law which, with few exceptions, made private ownership of guns illegal in the District.
The Hazleton Rebellion
There have been several rebellions in American history which were important--not for their military power--but for their politics...
ACLU Sues Police to Protect Illegal Aliens
The background for this comment came from an article published by Channel 7 News in Boston on its website. It credited the Associated Press with the story.The ACLU sued the State Police in Rhode Island, seeking the release of a videotape showing the "first five minutes of a 70-minute stop [...]
Peter Ferrara: ACLU Hails Major Defeat for War on Terror
The Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure is a critical protection for the civil liberties of Americans, and should not be lightly cast aside. But liberal/Left critics of President Bush's War on Terror are quite wrong in suggesting to the American people that this Amendment requires a judicially issued search warrant before any search or seizure can be made.
The ACLU Defends Illegals in Los Angeles
An article in World Net Daily on 16 September, 2006, described an ACLU-sponsored effort to support Special Order 40 of the Los Angeles Police Department. This Order requires the police in that City to refuse to ask for and act on the illegal status of any alien whom they question [...]
ACLU Part of Mexican-Affiliated Open Borders Group
The Associated Press wrote a story published in the Arizona Star on August 24 about a "new civil rights group" which is objecting to certain policies of the US Border Patrol. What the AP failed to report is that this new group (which involves the ACLU) is also affiliated with [...]