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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.

SCOTUS May Throw Out DOMA Cases Due to DOJ Refusal to Defend

By |2013-03-29T10:11:11-04:00March 29th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 27, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The Supreme Court’s justices spent a full hour in today’s DOMA case, U.S. v. Windsor, debating whether the case should be in court at all.

In each DOMA lawsuit–including Windsor–the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) has a responsibility to defend DOMA against a constitutional challenge. But President Obama declared that he believes DOMA is unconstitutional and ordered DOJ not to defend it.

The justices discussed whether this means no federal court has jurisdiction to decide the lawsuit. Article III of the Constitution only gives […]

Are We Equal?

By |2013-03-28T11:40:28-04:00March 28th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 27, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Are women equal to men? Are Jews equal to gentiles? Are blacks equal to Italians, Irish, Polish and other white people? The answer is probably a big fat no, and the pretense or assumption that we are equal — or should be equal — is foolhardy and creates mischief. Let’s look at it.

Male geniuses outnumber female geniuses 7-to-1. Female intelligence is packed much closer to the middle of the bell curve, whereas men’s intelligence has far greater variability. […]

Left And Right Extremists Fail To See Paul Ryan's Win-Win Entitlement Reform

By |2013-03-25T11:23:20-04:00March 25th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 24, 2013 on Forbes.com.

The New York Times told its readers on March 12 that Paul Ryan’s proposed 2014 budget involves “eliminating Medicare’s guarantee to retirees” and “dispensing with Medicaid and food stamps….” But Joe Farah, CEO of WND News, told his readers on March 15 that Ryan’s budget “fails to address unsustainable ‘entitlement’ programs.” They cannot both be right. But they can both be grievously wrong.

We hear a lot of talk about how Ryan’s […]

NRA Sues NY Gov. Cuomo on Gun-Control Law

By |2020-04-23T21:53:58-04:00March 24th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 22, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The NRA is taking New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to court as Cuomo prepares to run for president in 2016.

The National Rifle Association is supporting a lawsuit filed by its state affiliate, the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, whose president, Tom King, serves on the NRA board of directors.

In its complaint filed Mar. 21, the lawsuit challenges two provisions of Cuomo’s new gun-control law: one that bans a made-up type of firearm some politicians call “assault weapons” (there is no […]

Brazen Extremism

By |2013-03-20T16:07:29-04:00March 20th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 20, 2013 on the American Thinker website.

Democrat Party cheerleader Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) ridicules Paul Ryan’s House Republican budget as “extremist” and “radical.” Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) used the Huffington Post platform to allege that Ryan’s budget reflects “extremist Tea Party control” of the House Republican majority.

But it is the Senate Democrat budget that is extreme and radical, as I demonstrate below, reflecting extremist socialist party control of the Senate Democrat majority.

Bursting Through the Long Term Postwar Consensus […]

Sheriff Cruz Meets School Marm Feinstein

By |2020-04-23T21:53:58-04:00March 19th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published March 19, 2013 on the American Thinker website.

Here’s what Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) learned from questioning Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) about the constitutionality of her “assault weapons” ban. She’s out of estrogen and she used to have a gun.

Feinstein came armed with a scowl and a ruler when she confronted Cruz at the Constitution Corral. The outcome was so not OK for her. You can watch their exchange over S.150 during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last Thursday.

Feinstein actually objected when Cruz referred to […]

Supreme Court Hears Arizona Voter ID Case

By |2013-03-18T12:25:32-04:00March 18th, 2013|

With the fate of a crucial provision of the Voting Rights Act hanging in the balance, the Supreme Court hears another case challenging the right of a state to put in place new voting requirements Monday. At stake in the case--Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.-- is whether or not an Arizona law requiring Arizonans to show proof of citizenship at the voting booth will be upheld.

Paul Ryan's House Republican Budget vs. Patty Murray's Senate Democrat Budget

By |2013-03-18T11:57:09-04:00March 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 17, 2013 on Forbes.com.

The competing budgets released last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) definitively define the growing differences between the two parties.

The bottom line on Ryan’s Republican budget is that it restores federal taxes and spending back near the long term, stable level as a percent of GDP that prevailed for 60 years after World War II, from 1948 to 2008. Federal spending during that […]

No Room for Nuisances in Missouri Pews

By |2020-04-23T21:52:45-04:00March 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 18, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

You can’t keep a good theophobe down.

Despite losing in court, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says it will continue opposing Missouri’s voter-approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing the freedom to pray in public places.

An ACLU spokesman also likened Missouri legislators to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, but more about that below.

Designed to protect schoolchildren and public officials from nuisance lawsuits by the ACLU and other enforcers of official atheism, the amendment requires public schools to display the Bill of Rights […]

Educational Rot

By |2013-03-14T16:05:18-04:00March 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 13, 2013 on Townhall.com.

American education is in a sorry state of affairs, and there’s enough blame for all participants to have their fair share. They include students who are hostile and alien to the education process, uninterested parents, teachers and administrators who either are incompetent or have been beaten down by the system, and politicians who’ve become handmaidens for teachers unions. There’s another education issue that’s neither flattering nor comfortable to confront and talk about. That’s the low academic preparation of many teachers. […]

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