COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
John Armor: Hazelton: The People vs. the ACLU
Louis Barletta, mayor of Hazleton, Pa., has thrown down the gauntlet to those who think America belongs to anyone who can walk across the border. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a Puerto Rican group have taken up the challenge. And the mayor has upped the ante by hiring as defense counsel the former head of immigration in the Justice Department.
No Geneva Conventions for Terrorists
By Peter Ferrara — Contrary to what the mainstream media has been reporting, the Supreme Court in the Hamdan case did not hold that the Geneva Conventions apply to terrorists based on the terms or provisions of those conventions. The Court held that language in a Federal statute, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, applies the protections of the Geneva Conventions to terrorists. The terms of the Geneva Conventions themselves exclude terrorists from the protections of the Conventions.
The ACRU Defends Mt Soledad Veterans
The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) filed a friend of the court (amicus curiae) brief today in the California state appeals court in San Diego urging the court to uphold the constitutionality of the Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial, which includes a 29 foot tall cross.
ACRU Supports case in Defense of Right to Bear Arms
The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) filed a brief amicus curiae on Friday, June 16 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in support of the plaintiffs in the case of Shelly Parker et al. v. District of Columbia.
Department of Justice Memorandum Opinion For The Attorney General (August 24, 2004): Whether the Second Amendment secures a right of individuals generally, not a right of States or a right restricted to persons serving in militias.
"The Second Amendment of the Constitution provides: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." You have asked for the opinion of this Office on one aspect of the right secured [...]