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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.

Thank You, Speaker Boehner

By |2013-08-16T13:05:54-04:00August 16th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 14, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

A highly illuminating article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal by Stephen Moore explained the newly transformed federal budget realities, and the reasons for them. Bottom line: the Republican House Majority elected in a New Deal sized landslide in 2010 has been successful in doing what the voters elected it to do—turn around the explosive Obama Democrat runaway spending spree of 2009-2010. But this is just a first step in restoring American prosperity, and […]

Energy Manipulation

By |2013-08-16T12:26:15-04:00August 16th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 14, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Why is it that natural gas sells in the U.S. for $3.94 per 1,000 cubic feet and in Europe and Japan for $11.60 and $17, respectively? Part of the answer is our huge supply. With high-tech methods of extraction and with discovery of vast gas-rich shale deposits, estimated reserves are about 2.4 quadrillion cubic feet. That translates into more than a 100-year supply of natural gas at current usage rates. What partially explains the high European and Japanese prices is […]

Will Democrat Voters Support Obama's Suspension of Democracy and Calculated Deception?

By |2013-08-16T11:02:56-04:00August 16th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 11, 2013 on Forbes.com.

On July 18, President Obama held an event at the White House to promote Obamacare. It was Calculated Deception writ large, which is Obama’s rhetorical style of taking advantage of what he shrewdly calculates the great majority of average Americans will not know, and what he is certain the so-called mainstream media will not tell them. That smacks of third world style, authoritarian propaganda.

Obama falsely claimed, “In states like California, Oregon, Washington, […]

Federal Judge Rules Bloomberg's NYC 'Stop-and-Frisk' Unconstitutional

By |2013-08-14T05:54:54-04:00August 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 12, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin today invalidated Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s “stop-and-frisk” policy as a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.

As Scheindlin begins the 192-page opinion:

The goals of liberty and safety may be in tension, but they can coexist—indeed the Constitution mandates it…. I emphasize at the outset … that this case is not about the effectiveness of stop and frisk in deterring or combating crime. This Court’s mandate is solely to judge the constitutionality of police behavior, […]

Holder Does End-Run Around Congress on Federal Drug Laws

By |2020-04-23T21:58:16-04:00August 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 12, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Attorney General Eric Holder has just announced an end-run around Congress and given the far left one of its priority action-items, announcing he will not prosecute drug crimes unconnected to gangs or violence. Ironically, he invoked the conservative principle of federalism to do it.

Congress has enacted stiff penalties for various drug crimes, carrying mandatory minimum sentences. According to a leaked copy of his speech today at the American Bar Association (which is a solidly-liberal lawyers’ organization, not any sort of official body for the […]

ACRU Urges Court to Clarify the Right to Carry

By |2020-04-23T21:53:57-04:00August 13th, 2013|

Maryland law reduces Second Amendment’s guarantee of right to bear arms largely to home and hearth, group contends in court brief.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Maryland is unconstitutionally restricting citizens’ right of self defense outside the home, argues an American Civil Rights Union amicus brief submitted Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In Woollard and Second Amendment Foundation, Inc. v. Gallagher, et al, the brief, written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, asks the Court to hear the case, and states:

“There is nothing in the language of the Second Amendment, or of this Court’s governing, binding precedents in Heller and McDonald, that limits the […]

How to Fix the Republican Party

By |2013-08-09T09:41:54-04:00August 9th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 7, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

Why does the Republican Party keep nominating all these loser candidates, like Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney? Why did Republican primary voters pick George Bush over Jack Kemp in 1988? Why did they pick Romney over more conservative candidates, including some proven winners?

There is a structural problem in the party’s presidential primary system that leads to these results.

The GOP Presidential primaries are dominated by corporate executive donors who tend to support […]

Congress, States, And Even Obama's DOJ Rally To Prayer-Givers' Defense

By |2020-04-23T21:52:42-04:00August 9th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 8, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Congress, half of the states across the nation, and many others are rallying to defend public prayer in a major case at the U.S. Supreme Court. Even the Obama administration weighed in with a surprising legal brief in what is shaping up to be a major religious-liberty case—and could even become the biggest religious-liberty win in over half a century.

This is an update to our on Town of Greece v. Galloway, regarding whether prayers at government events are an unconstitutional violation of […]

ACRU Asks Court to Use 'Coercion Test' in Freedom to Pray Case

By |2020-04-23T21:53:57-04:00August 8th, 2013|

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Aug. 6, 2013) — Is allowing prayer at public meetings an example of the free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment or an illegal governmental establishment of religion?

To assist courts in threading this needle, the ACRU is promoting a unique, new doctrine called the Coercion Test.

In a brief filed on Aug. 2 at the U.S. Supreme Court in Town of Greece v. Susan Galloway and Linda Stevens, ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara defends the upstate New York town’s practice of allowing rotating, voluntary prayers before council meetings and explains the Coercion Test:

“At the time the First […]

NRA Takes Case Against Obama's ATF to Supreme Court

By |2020-04-23T21:53:57-04:00August 7th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 5, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) sued the Obama administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) over a federal law denying law-abiding young adults their Second Amendment right to own a handgun. After fighting it out in the lower courts, the NRA has now petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case.

The case is NRA v. BATFE, and the lawyers representing the NRA are the best in the nation on this issue.

Federal law allows all law-abiding adults (meaning ages 18 and […]

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