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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.

Obamacare, Day 1: Supreme Court Will Declare Game On

By |2023-03-10T08:04:46-05:00March 29th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 27, 2012 on Brietbart.com.

The Supreme Court appears to reject the argument that it lacks jurisdiction to decide Obamacare’s fate until 2015. We should all expect the red-hot issues surrounding Obamacare to be decided by the end of June, for better or worse. And the Obama administration is trying to have its cake and eat it, too.

It’s well known that many are challenging the legitimacy of Obamacare’s individual mandate. Fewer know that there is a second issue of whether Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid is unconstitutional, and whether striking down either provision also […]

Our Constitutional Freedom to Listen

By |2020-04-23T21:52:49-04:00March 28th, 2012|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara and former ACRU intern and researcher Carlos Ramirez explain in a Liberty Law Review article why the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech is violated if the corollary freedom to listen is not enforced.

Download the article here. (PDF)

Profiling

By |2012-03-28T10:14:03-04:00March 28th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 28, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Right now, there isn’t enough known about the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a black, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old part-Hispanic, during his neighborhood watch tour in an Orlando, Fla., suburb. If evidence emerges that Zimmerman’s actions were not justified, he should be prosecuted and punished; however, there’s a larger issue that few people understand or have the courage to acknowledge, namely that black and young has become synonymous with crime and, hence, suspicion. To make […]

A Budget America Can't Live Without

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00March 28th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published March 28, 2012 on Townhall.com.

The House Republican Study Committee (RSC) has proposed a federal budget that not only can America live with – it cannot live without.

It is a serious plan with responsible measures for achieving fiscal sanity in an appropriate and reasonable time frame. The RSC budget will reach balance in just five years, as opposed to balancing the federal budget in 10 years at the earliest under Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s proposal.

This is not pie-in-the-sky thinking – our […]

ACLU Gins Up Contraception Controversy in Arizona

By |2012-03-27T08:31:46-04:00March 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 27, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.

While the Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of Obamacare and the nation reels from the Obama administration’s order that Catholic hospitals must provide contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees, the ACLU of Arizona is attacking a proposal to restore employers’ freedom of conscience.

House Bill 2625, sponsored by Republican State Senator Debbie Lesko, would allow all Arizona employers to opt out of the federal contraception mandate. To the ACLU, this is tantamount to shutting off medical care to women.

The ACLU has […]

Taming the EPA Monster

By |2012-03-26T11:01:25-04:00March 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 26, 2012 in The Washington Times.

Slowly, inexorably, the monster is being driven back to its lair. Its days of terrorizing villagers may soon be over. I wish I were talking about the federal government, but it’s the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), better known as the Environmental Protection-or-else Agency.

At one time, it was a harmless little back-alley operation that stumbled upon a secret growth formula, downed the whole vat and began wreaking havoc. You won’t find this account on the EPA’s official website, but you will find ample evidence […]

Supreme Court Sides with ACRU in EPA Case

By |2012-03-23T08:06:49-04:00March 23rd, 2012|

“This is a great victory for property rights and against abuses of federal power,” said Susan A. Carleson, Chairman and CEO of the American Civil Rights Union, which filed a friend of the court brief in Sackett v. EPA.

March 21–The Supreme Court ruled today in favor of an Idaho couple, Chantell and Mike Sackett, who were building a home in a residential neighborhood but had fallen victim to an Environmental Protection Agency compliance order. Their building permit was revoked after the EPA charged that they had violated the Clean Water Act by filling in their lot with rocks and dirt.

Holder's 'All-Out War' on Voter IDs Is Obama Re-election Tool

By |2020-04-23T21:59:33-04:00March 22nd, 2012|

This column by Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter interviews ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and was published March 22, 2012 on Newsmax.com.

Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell tells Newsmax that the Obama administration has “launched an all-out war on voter ID laws” to bolster the president’s re-election chances.

The Republican activist also asserts that voter ID laws offer a “reasonable safeguard” to protect against voter fraud and ballot-box stuffing.

Blackwell, who was secretary of state in Ohio from 1999 to 2007, also has been mayor of Cincinnati, undersecretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the […]

Protect Your Vote! ACRU Launches Campaign to Prevent Vote Fraud

By |2012-03-22T08:04:23-04:00March 22nd, 2012|

“ProtectYourVote.us is a powerful new tool for citizens to use to ensure that fair and honest elections are held this November. All Americans have a stake in protecting our election process. Without confidence in the system, we cannot continue to be a free, self-governing nation.”

– Edwin Meese III, former U.S. Attorney General

March 22 – Smack in the middle of a furious national debate over state-passed laws that strengthen voter registration and voter ID requirements, the American Civil Rights Union is unveiling today its advocacy of specific measures to prevent vote fraud in the November elections by:

  • Requiring a photo […]

Voter ID Laws Protect the Integrity of the Ballot Box

By |2020-04-23T21:59:33-04:00March 21st, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 21, 2012 on The Huffington Post website.

Protecting the integrity of the ballot box is essential to our democracy. Laws requiring voters to show identification at the polls are commonsense measures to prevent fraud and corruption, and ensure that each year’s election returns accurately reflect the will of the people.

Yet President Obama’s administration and political allies are pursuing a dual-track approach to vilify such tools, in a crass political ploy to aid the president’s reelection.

In 2008, the Supreme Court held […]

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