COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Maine and Nevada Show Why the Electoral College Helps Small States, Not Red States
7/19: What is “undemocratic” is an agreement that means that even if every single voter in a state voted against a presidential candidate who won the national popular vote, the state would still have to give all its electoral votes to that candidate.
New Normal: Bloodlust on the Left in Census and Election Fights
7/19: No matter your worthy accomplishments or achievements, no matter your character or kindness, the Left has it in for you because of what you stand for.
What I Saw of the Apollo Program as a Kid in the 1960s
7/19: It’s long past time we got back in the habit of taking giant leaps for mankind—just like the one Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins took 50 years ago.
Trump Wins Big in Emoluments Lawsuits: 2 Down and 1 to Go
7/18: President Donald Trump has won the second of three lawsuits alleging he violated the Constitution because foreigners and state officials patronize his businesses, such as the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C.
VIDEO: Tech Companies Can Push Voters to the Polls without Regulation
7/17: Senior research psychologist for the American Institute for Behavioral Research & Technology, Robert Epstein, testified to the Senate about how Google pushed millions of votes to Hillary Clinton.
Swamp Tales II: $335k Government Salary, Picnics, and Free Yoga
7/17: How about a $150,000 per year government job where every week you can plan the “perfect picnic” for an obscure government agency?
Klukowski: The Legacy of Justice John Paul Stevens
7/17: ACRU General Counsel Ken Klukowski reports on the the long service of Justice John Paul Stevens, who passed away July 16th.
Williams: The Past Should Inform the Future
7/17: ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams explains why traditional values of the past could help us fix our future.
Klukowski: Trump's Emoluments Clause Victory
7/11: ACRU General Counsel Ken Klukowski reports on the courts granting President Trump a large victory in a liberal suit against him trying to cite the emoluments clause.
Swamp Tales: Unaccountable Federal Agency Uses Tax Dollars to Astroturf Crowds and Force Airborne Wheelchairs
7/15: An obscure federal agency immune from executive branch oversight is spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to design plans to compel airlines to mandate in-flight wheelchair accommodation and to generate astroturf crowds of activists at public events.
Is Texas Democrat Exploiting Loophole by Coaching Migrants to Lie?
7/15: An important principle of our legal system is that no one in this country—including members of Congress—is above the law.
Klukowksi: Court Sides with Trump on Sanctuary Cities
7/15: ACRU General Counsel Ken Klukowski reports on the Ninth Circuit appeals court's ruling that the President can withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities.
New Bestseller Reveals Liberal Women Carried the Day for Kavanaugh
7/13: Democrats might have succeeded in derailing Kavanaugh’s nomination if it weren’t for the courageous women who bucked the progressive groupthink and stood true to their moral compass.
Blackwell: How Liberals Helped Confirm Brett Kavanaugh
7/12: ACRU Policy Board member and senior fellow Ken Blackwell reports on a new book that looks at how liberal women's outlandish behavior during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation actually helped the future Supreme Court Justice.
The American Civil Rights Union Urges the Supreme Court to Protect Free Speech by Overturning Hill v. Colorado
7/11: The American Civil Rights Union has filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioners in Price v. Chicago, encouraging the Court to agree to take the case.
Misrepresenting Themselves at the Border
7/10: We really are facing an unsustainable and unprecedented crisis on the border.
Williams: Fighting for Free Speech
7/10: ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams explains why the Left is trying to eradicate free speech in America.
Rucho v. Common Cause: A Significantly Modest Victory for Judicial Restraint
7/10: The victory is significant because it takes the federal courts out of the political gerrymandering thicket.
Spakovsky: Illegal Immigrants Lie to Claim Asylum
7/9: ACRU Policy Board Member Hans von Spakovsky reports on the fact that many people claiming to be families when crossing the US border are actually lying to game the US immigration system.
Klukowski: The Media Is Ignoring Good Reporting
7/8: ACRU General Counsel Ken Klukowski reports on the liberal media seemingly ignoring a well-sourced, bestselling book on what really happened during the contentious Brett Kavanaugh hearings.