ACRU Staff, Author at American Constitutional Rights Union

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The American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) is dedicated to defending the constitutional rights of all Americans. ACRU stands against harmful, anti-constitutional ideologies that have taken hold in our nation’s courts, culture, and bureaucracies. We defend and promote free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, and national sovereignty.

Supreme Court Hears Cases on Conscience Objections to Obamacare This Tuesday

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:39-04:00March 24th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 24, 2014 on Breitbart.com.

On Tuesday, Mar. 25, the Supreme Court will hear its next cases on President Obama’s controversial signature law. These two cases involve whether it violates either federal law or the U.S. Constitution to compel Christian business owners to provide abortion-related drugs that can destroy human embryos after conception, which those owners regard as immorally destroying human life. The cases are Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius. They are challenges to Obamacare’s HHS abortion/contraception mandate.

Breitbart News has already reported extensively on the details of these […]

ACRU Applauds Ruling on Citizenship for Voting

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:59:45-04:00March 21st, 2014|

“It’s refreshing when a federal judge cites the Constitution as it was written, not in a way that distorts it to create an opposite meaning,” says ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 21, 2014) — In a victory for election integrity, a federal judge has ruled that Arizona and Kansas can require people registering to vote to prove their U.S. citizenship, and the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) cannot block them.

The two states had asked the EAC to include the citizenship proof requirement on federal registration forms in those states to make them consistent. The EAC declined to approve the request and […]

Is There Wage Stagnation?

By ACRU Staff|2014-03-21T12:22:19-04:00March 21st, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 19, 2014 on Townhall.com.

Many economists, politicians and pundits assert that median wages have stagnated since the 1970s. That’s a call for government to do something about it. But before we look at the error in their assertion, let’s work through an example that might shed a bit of light on the issue.

Suppose that you paid me a straight $20 an hour in 2004. Ten years later, I’m still earning $20 an hour, but in addition, now I’m receiving job perks such […]

American Prosperity Stems from More, Full Time, Middle Class Jobs and Wages, Not from Higher Minimum Wages

By ACRU Staff|2014-03-21T12:03:16-04:00March 21st, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on March 19, 2014 on Forbes.com.

Like all of President Obama’s ideas and enthusiasms, the minimum wage law is not a new idea. It was first adopted in 1938. It never has been the foundation of American prosperity, or even a good way to fight poverty. Indeed, it does more to increase poverty than reduce it.

Less than 3% of American workers are paid the minimum wage. These are not breadwinners supporting a family. Over half are between the ages of 16 and 24. Two-thirds (67%) of minimum wage earners work […]

Obama's Alter Ego

By ACRU Staff|2014-03-20T16:16:10-04:00March 20th, 2014|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing March 20, 2014 on The American Thinker website.

Which President Obama appears at the White House podium depends on whether the incident du jour is commendable or condemnable.

If it’s a star-spangled victory by America’s magnificent military, such as the Navy SEALs killing Osama bin Laden, Obama becomes the reincarnation of Chester W. Nimitz, Admiral of the Pacific Fleet, fully informed and in command.

If it’s a scandal involving willful deceit and/or incompetence, Obama becomes the know-nothing Sgt. Schultz of the ’60s TV sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes.”

On March 16, […]

Air Force: Christians' Religious Speech Not Legally Protected Right

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:39-04:00March 20th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 16, 2014 on Breitbart.com.

Christians in the U.S. military are being told they must forfeit their First Amendment rights. Bible verses are being erased from cadets’ personal dorm-room white boards, and military lawyers claim that legal protections for religion only pertain to matters such as clothing and growing beards but do not extend to any religious expression such as talking about one’s faith or posting a Bible verse.

Last year Breitbart News broke the story of a campaign by anti-Christian extremists to suppress traditional Christian […]

ACLU Sings Harmony with Violent Lyricist

By ACRU Staff|2014-03-14T10:25:19-04:00March 14th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 13, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

In a case of attempted murder headed for the New Jersey Supreme Court, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wants violent lyrics written by the accused to be protected as “free speech” and barred from the courtroom.

Vonte L. Skinner, whose conviction for attempted murder was overturned in August 2012, had sheets of rap lyrics in his car during his arrest for a 2005 shooting that left an acquaintance paralyzed from the waist down.

The lyrics, written some months or years before […]

Governed by Rules, Not Men

By ACRU Staff|2014-03-13T21:03:47-04:00March 13th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 12, 2014 on Townhall.com.

What kind of rules should govern our lives? I’d argue that the best rules are those that we’d be satisfied with if our very worst enemy were in charge of decision-making. The foundation for such rules was laid out by my mother. Let’s look at it.

My mother worked as a domestic servant. That meant that my younger sister and I often lunched at home by ourselves during our preteen years. Being bigger and stronger than my sister, I seldom divided the food […]

On Track to Restart the Cold War

By ACRU Staff|2014-03-13T14:50:22-04:00March 13th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on March 12, 2014 on The American Spectator website.

On economic policy, President Obama has consistently and thoroughly followed just the opposite of everything Reagan did. And that is why he has consistently and thoroughly gotten the opposite of Reagan’s results.

Reagan slashed tax rates, with the top income tax rate reduced from 70% when he entered office to 28% when he left. (Federal tax revenues doubled during the 1980s.) Early in his first year, Reagan led Congress to cut federal spending by nearly 5%. Early in his first year, Obama […]

ACRU: IRS, U.S. Court Overreached on Obamacare Exchanges

By ACRU Staff|2014-03-11T14:42:44-04:00March 11th, 2014|

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 11, 2014) — In a brief filed Monday at the Fourth District U.S. Court of Appeals, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) argues that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has ignored Congress on Obamacare and violated the constitutional separation of powers.

Even though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) makes tax subsidies available only to individuals purchasing insurance through state exchanges, the IRS issued a rule opening subsidies to people who buy on federal exchanges. A U.S. District Court upheld the rule, ignoring the ACA’s clear language, according to the ACRU’s brief filed in conjunction with the Pacific Justice Institute […]

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