ACRU Staff, Author at American Constitutional Rights Union

Texas Passes 20-Week Abortion Ban, Should Survive Legal Challenge

By ACRU Staff|2013-07-21T19:14:41-04:00July 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 18, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Today Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law a pro-life bill which will very likely be upheld by the Supreme Court. The law disallows most abortions after 20 weeks, the point by which an unborn child can fully feel physical pain and therefore would actually experience the agony of dying during the abortion procedure.

It also requires the doctor performing the abortion to be credentialed to admit patients at a local hospital, so if anything goes wrong during the abortion the doctor can personally get […]

The Meaning of the Zimmerman Trial

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:57:06-04:00July 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published July 17, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

There has been only one responsible party in the entire Zimmerman affair. Everyone else in positions of power and authority has fallen into one of two categories.

Those on the Left have sought to exploit the incident for political gain, thinking they can manipulate the general public, too often distracted and gullible, into believing the false narrative they were painting. That started at the top in the person of President of the United States Barack Obama, […]

What Egyptians Need

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:56:55-04:00July 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 17, 2013 on Townhall.com.

What Egyptian citizens must recognize is that political liberty thrives best where there’s a large measure of economic liberty. The Egyptian people are not the problem; it’s the environment they’re forced to live in. Why is it that Egyptians do well in the U.S. but not Egypt? We could make the same observation about Nigerians, Cambodians, Jamaicans and many other people who leave their homeland and emmigrate to the U.S. For example, Indians in India suffer great poverty. But that’s […]

The Untold Unemployment Story: A Loss Of 162,000 Full-Time Jobs In June

By ACRU Staff|2013-07-18T11:36:36-04:00July 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published July 14, 2013 on Forbes.com.

You would not have gotten the real story about the June unemployment report on the front page of any newspaper. If you can find a reporter who can think for himself or herself, he or she is a treasure who should be promoted to run the entire paper.

But since you are already here, the real story is available if you read on. There were no net full time jobs created last month. The number […]

Silver Linings in the Ruling on Obamacare

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:42-04:00July 15th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published July 15, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

In the latest court ruling upholding Obamacare, a three-judge federal panel in Richmond, Va, last Thursday rejected Liberty University’s challenge to both the individual mandate and the employer mandate to provide health insurance.

There are silver linings here, and we’ll get to them in a minute. First, let’s look at the case.

Eyebrows were raised a few months ago when Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s Justice Department said it had no problem with the U.S. Supreme Court sending Liberty’s challenge to […]

ACRU: D.C. Gun Transfer Law Violates Second Amendment by Burdening the Sale of Goods or Services

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:53:43-04:00July 11th, 2013|

WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 11, 2013)—The District of Columbia’s law requiring residents who purchase out-of-state guns to go through an expensive middleman to get a transfer permit violates the Second Amendment, according to a brief filed on July 1 at the U.S. Supreme Court by the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU).

Although the Court’s 2008 ruling in the Heller case overturned the District’s ban on handgun possession, the city has another law that requires people who want to buy guns out of state to transfer them through a federally licensed firearms dealer (FLFD). Since the District has no retail gun stores, anyone who wants to buy a […]

The Lawless President

By ACRU Staff|2013-07-10T23:46:36-04:00July 10th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published July 10, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

The duties of the President of the United States are spelled out in Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, which states, inter alia, that the President “shall take Care that the laws be faithfully executed.” As Stanford Law Professor and former federal judge Michael McConnell explained in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, “This is a duty, not a discretionary power. While the president does have substantial discretion about how to enforce a law, he has no discretion […]

Black Education Tragedy

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-10T08:04:41-05:00July 10th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 10, 2013 on Townhall.com.

As if more evidence were needed about the tragedy of black education, Rachel Jeantel, a witness for the prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder trial, put a face on it for the nation to see. Some of that evidence unfolded when Zimmerman’s defense attorney asked 19-year-old Jeantel to read a letter that she allegedly had written to Trayvon Martin’s mother. She responded that she doesn’t read cursive, and that’s in addition to her poor grammar, syntax and communication skills.

As the Earth Cools, Obama's Still Distracted by a Fraudulent Warming Narrative

By ACRU Staff|2013-07-10T21:49:33-04:00July 10th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published July 8, 2013 on Forbes.com.

“A growing economy that creates good, middle class jobs—this must be the North Star that guides our efforts.”

That is what President Obama said in his State of the Union Address would be the overriding priority guiding his second term, to much fanfare. He has also frequently said he is “focused on jobs like a laser,” and that the central goal of his policies is to preserve and advance the middle class. He […]

ACRU Brief Says Popular Michigan State Initiative Ending Racial Preferences Is a Cure for Unintended, Bad Consequences

By ACRU Staff|2013-07-10T07:24:07-04:00July 10th, 2013|

WASHINGTON D.C. (JULY 10, 2013)—In 2009, Michigan voters by 58 to 42 percent approved Proposal 2, a constitutional amendment that stopped preferential treatment of minorities at publicly funded institutions, including college admissions. Several racial preference groups sued, and the case is now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

On July 1, the ACRU submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara in Bill Schuette, Attorney General of Michigan v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. The brief argues that the amendment is constitutional even if subjected to heightened scrutiny, and that there are several compelling reasons:

It ends […]

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