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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.

With Many Claiming His Mantle, It's Important to Get Reagan Right

By |2012-02-04T16:00:53-05:00February 4th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 6, 2012 in The Washington Times.

Ronald Reagan, who would have turned 101 on Feb. 6, no doubt would have been amused by the number and ideological diversity of people claiming some part of the Reagan mantle.

Barack Obama has been doing it for years.

In an interview with Nevada’s Reno Gazette-Journal on Jan. 17, 2008, President Obama said:

“I don’t want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what’s different are the times. … I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory […]

Delta Force Hero Can't Speak at West Point Because of His Christian Beliefs

By |2012-02-02T09:37:16-05:00February 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 1, 2012 on The Huffington Post website.

A three-star Army general and war hero cannot speak at West Point because he’s an outspoken Christian. So the Obama administration’s hostility toward religion — and especially Christians — continues even to the detriment of our men and women in uniform.

Lieutenant General William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin is like an action-movie hero. When the super-elite Delta Force was formed in late 1970s — our top counter-insurgent military unit that the Pentagon still does not officially discuss […]

Obama's Calculated Deception

By |2023-03-10T08:04:46-05:00February 1st, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 1, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Calculated deception as a central public manipulation strategy practiced by President Obama involves the President taking advantage of what he thinks the average person doesn’t know and won’t be told by a compliant media. Such calculated deception was central to last week’s State of the Union Address. That address is useful only as an outline of the President’s reelection strategy.

A powerful practical answer will come at the end of March in the form of House […]

Obama's Racial Politics

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00February 1st, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 1, 2012 on Townhall.com.

There’s been a heap of criticism placed upon President Barack Obama’s domestic policies that have promoted government intrusion and prolonged our fiscal crisis and his foreign policies that have emboldened our enemies. Any criticism of Obama pales in comparison with what might be said about the American people who voted him in to the nation’s highest office.

Obama’s presidency represents the first time in our history that a person could have been elected to that office who had long-standing […]

Schools of Education

By |2012-01-26T08:07:49-05:00January 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 25, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Larry Sand’s article “No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can’t Read” — written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. — blames schools of education for the decline in America’s education. Education professors drum into students that they should not “drill and kill” or be the “sage on the stage” but instead be the “guide on the side” who “facilitates student discovery.” This kind of harebrained thinking, coupled with multicultural nonsense, explains today’s education. During […]

Is Kagan Signaling Her Recusal on Obamacare?

By |2012-01-23T16:53:03-05:00January 23rd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 23, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Justice Elena Kagan did not participate in the Supreme Court’s recent decision not to grant a motion from one of the participants in the upcoming consideration of the constitutionality of Obamacare.

In today’s weekly orders from the Court, one of the many amicus groups filing briefs in this case, Freedom Watch, filed a motion asking for permission to share part of the oral argument time when oral arguments are presented on March 26, 27, and 28. This motion was predictably denied, as it almost always is.

Many to Benefit from President's Ruling, but Not Us

By |2012-01-23T15:26:43-05:00January 23rd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 23, 2012 in The Washington Times.

Checking his sundial and solar-powered calendar, Barack Obama has decided that he did not have enough time to study the impact of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, so he killed it.

Seriously. That was the excuse for halting a project that could have created 20,000 jobs, brought 830,000 barrels of oil a day to Texas refineries and helped free America from unstable dictators’ stranglehold on our energy supply.

This from the man who had to hurry, hurry, hurry and jam […]

Obama's Lawyer Argues for Family Values at Supreme Court

By |2020-04-23T21:52:50-04:00January 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 11, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Culture warriors took the upper hand against liberals and libertarians alike at the Supreme Court this week, as a moderate justice joined with conservatives and a liberal presidential administration to take a stand for family values.

Do Federal Communication Commission (FCC) regulations banning profanity and nudity on primetime broadcast television violate the First Amendment? Broadcasters argued that the bans are unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court will forever change America’s culture if it agrees in FCC v. Fox Television.

But the Court apparently disagrees. Justice Anthony […]

ObamaCare's Medicaid Provision 'Unconstitutional'

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

“Has Congress made an offer that the states could not refuse? That is the question that must be decided by this case.”

Jan. 17, 2012 — The American Civil Rights Union filed its sixth brief on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as ObamaCare.

The brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in States of Florida, et al v. United States Department of HHS, in support of Florida and 25 other states was authored by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara. The brief argues that the law’s Medicaid provision violates the Coercion Doctrine, which holds that the national […]

Shocker! Supreme Court Lets Stand Lower Bench's Ban on Saying 'Jesus' Too Often in Public Prayers

By |2012-01-18T15:23:46-05:00January 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 17, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Pastors and priests in five states cannot mention ‘Jesus’ more than once or twice if they pray in public at an official function after the U.S. Supreme Court stunned constitutional law experts earlier today by letting stand a lower court ruling.

‘Legislative prayer’ is what courts call the tradition of legislative bodies (Congress, state legislators, town councils, etc.) beginning their meetings with an invocation.

Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that when pastors and priests offer such prayers, it’s […]

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