COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Symposium: Polling-Place Speech Restrictions Collide with Modern Free-Speech Doctrine
1/25: This year the Supreme Court will decide whether the First Amendment allows a “buffer zone” forbidding all political speech around polling places on Election Day.
Supreme Court Takes Historic Case on Trump Travel Ban
1/19: On January 19, the Supreme Court granted review in this blockbuster case.
ACRU's Ken Klukowski Speaks on the Supreme Court Taking on the Travel Ban
1/19: ACRU General Counsel Ken Klukowski speaks on the Larry O'Connor Show about Supreme Court taking up the arguments on Donald Trump's Immigration Travel Ban.
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Slams Federal Judge’s ‘Offensive’ Comments, Declares DACA Unconstitutional
1/15: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday criticized a federal judge’s order reinstating DACA as offensive for suggesting that ending DACA is racist.
Constitutional Ignorance – Perhaps Contempt
1/17: Is it ignorance of or contempt for our Constitution that fuels the movement to abolish the Electoral College?
VIDEO: ACRU Policy Board Member Ken Blackwell Defends Trump’s Immigration Policies
1/13: ACRU’s Policy Board member Ken Blackwell joins defends President Trump's policies on Immigration and efforts toward border security on MSNBC.
Exclusive: Ken Blackwell Discusses MSNBC, One Nation Under God on MLK Day
1/15: Former U.S. Ambassador Ken Blackwell threw down on MSNBC for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, talking about President Donald Trump, racism, and sh**hole nations.
Dirty College Secrets
1/10: A frequent point I have made in past columns has been about the educational travesty happening on many college campuses.
Federal Court Orders Trump Administration to Reinstate DACA
1/9: A federal district court in California on Tuesday ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to immediately reinstate DACA.
Podcast: New Fight Brewing Over DACA and Border Security, and Oprah 2020?
1/8: With government spending soon to run out, some lawmakers want to attach a DACA “fix” to must-pass legislation. ACRU's Hans von Spakovsky discusses why such a move would ignore the lessons of history.
Conservatives Praise Trump, McConnell, and Grassley on Judges
1/8: The Judicial Crisis Network has launched a six-figure ad campaign thanking President Donald Trump, Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley for their historic achievements on appointing federal judges during 2017.
Blackwell: Lawsuits, Democrats at Fault for End of Voter Fraud Panel
1/4: Blaming “a knot of lawsuits” and “a wall of resistance” from Democratic election officials, ACRU Senior Fellow and Policy Board member J. Kenneth Blackwell said President Trump made “the right move” to scrap an advisory council he created to study election fraud in the United States.
Ken Blackwell on Disbanding the Election Integrity Commission
1/4: The "Voters Without Borders" crowd has forfeited its seats at the table. How long did they think we would let them tie us up with meaningless lawsuits and stonewalling?
Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Trump on Foreign Payments
1/3: Left-wing activists who breathlessly claimed that lawsuits against President Donald Trump for allegedly violating the Constitution’s Emoluments Clauses would lead to his expulsion from office are now probably disappointed.
VIDEO: ACRU Policy Board Member Ken Blackwell Defends Donald Trump to MSNBC
12/30: ACRU's Policy Board member Ken Blackwell joins a panel on MSNBC reviewing race relations after President Trump's first year in office.
Dangers of Government Control
1/3: How much sense does it make for us to give seven unelected people life-and-death control over our economy and hence our lives?
Trump’s Historic Success Appointing Federal Judges in 2017
12/30: Even President Donald Trump’s critics cannot deny his historic success in 2017 in appointed judges to the Supreme Court and lower federal courts.
Exclusive: MSNBC Calls Trump Racist, Ken Blackwell Defends President
1/1: MSNBC on Saturday hosted yet another panel accusing President Trump of racism, with former U.S. ambassador Ken Blackwell joining to push back against the overwrought rhetoric.
Jeff Sessions Focused in 2017 on Restoring Rule of Law and Constitutional Rights
12/28: Attorney General Jeff Sessions has had a busy first year as one of President Donald Trump’s earliest and most committed supporters, one who now leads one of the most powerful departments in the federal government.
White House Counsel Don McGahn Delivering on President Trump’s Promises
12/27: White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn II has proven to be an influential adviser in assisting the president in keeping his promises when it comes to the law and the courts.