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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.

Ken Blackwell: Mr. President: Don't back the Dhimmicrats!

By |2010-08-05T14:53:04-04:00August 5th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing August 5, 2010, on The Daily Caller.

Despite what you may think, Dhimmicrats are not Democrats. A dhimmicrat is a Western official who uses his position of power and influence to clear the pathway for the spread of shariah—the law they have in Saudi Arabia. Dhimmi is the Arabic word for the low status person—all non-Muslims—who live under sharia.

A good example of a dhimmicrat would be former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has been a tireless advocate of Arabs against Israel. Another is the Right Rev. Rowan Williams, the Church of England’s Archbishop of Canterbury, […]

Peter Ferrara: The Big Bamboozler

By |2010-08-05T11:31:49-04:00August 5th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 4, 2010 on The American Spectator.

On Monday, at yet another campaign fundraiser, the part-time President, full-time campaigner Barack Obama told Democrat fat cats, with both hands in taxpayer pockets, that Republicans “have not come up with a single, solitary new idea to address the challenges of the American people.”

But where are Barack Obama’s new ideas? The Keynesian deficit spending of the 1970s, focused on the make-work jobs programs of the 1930s, is not exactly a new idea. Neither is socialized medicine. Neither is raising capital gains taxes, or restoring the death tax, or […]

Peter Ferrara: What If Revenue From The Rich Dries Up?

By |2010-08-05T11:06:59-04:00August 5th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 2, 2010 on Investors.com.

President Obama says his sweeping, across-the-board increases for every major federal tax rate starting next year are necessary for “the rich” to pay their fair share. “The rich” are defined as those making more than $250,000 per year.

Those increases include a close-to-60% increase in the capital gains tax rate, counting the new 3.8% tax on investment income in ObamaCare. The tax rate on dividends would soar by nearly three times.

The top two personal income-tax rates would effectively rise nearly 20%, counting the phase-down of deductions at those income levels.


Robert Knight: The Kagan Moral Train Wreck

By |2010-08-04T16:59:05-04:00August 4th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing August 3, 2010 on Townhall.com.

As we watch in disbelief, the United States Senate is about to take the Fifth on a Supreme Court nominee who has no business being near a courtroom except as a defendant.

The word from Capitol Hill is that the GOP won’t even bother with a filibuster despite evidence from Elena Kagan’s Judiciary Committee hearing that she falsified evidence used in a Supreme Court case and committed what might be perjury before that committee.

One wonders what it would take for the Senate to deny this […]

Jan LaRue: Obama's Stealth Amnesty Express

By |2023-03-10T08:04:51-05:00August 3rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing August 2, 2010, on TownHall.com.

Amnesty is on the horizon. Open and transparent government be damned–full speed ahead. Barack Obama is throwing overboard his commitment to “an unprecedented level of openness in Government” as he pursues his ultimate goal of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

An internal draft memo to Alejandro N. Mayorkas, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), from four staff members advises him that the USCIS, under certain provisions of the “Immigration and Nationality Act,” may, among other remedies, “develop and implement a registration program […]

Ken Klukowski: Federal Court Allows Challenge to Obamacare

By |2010-08-03T13:04:45-04:00August 3rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing August 2, 2010, on Townhall.com.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied the Obama administration’s motion to dismiss Virginia’s lawsuit against Obamacare. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed one of the three major lawsuits against President Obama’s healthcare law, focusing on the issue that the individual mandate, requiring every American to purchase health insurance, is unconstitutional.

For the reason my coauthor and I explained in the Wall Street Journal in January and last month, the Obamacare individual mandate is clearly unconstitutional. In researching this issue for our book, The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to […]

ACLU Outrage: Bureaucrats: 'We don' need no steenkin' statutes.'

By |2010-08-03T01:12:35-04:00August 3rd, 2010|

The facts for this article, but not the legal conclusions, come from an internal memorandum in the US Department of Homeland Security, Division of Citizenship and Immigration. This extraordinary document is from the Chief Counsel and the Directors of Policy and Strategy, Field Operations and Service Center Operations. It is addressed to the Director of that Office.

Though the ACLU has no direct involvement in this memo, it is entirely in line with the ACLU’s position that everyone who can sneak across the border is immediately entitled to all the benefits available to Americans and to legal residents in the country.

Here is […]

Peter Ferrara: Beware the Balanced Budget Deal

By |2010-08-02T11:30:58-04:00August 2nd, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing July 29, 2010, on Wall Street Journal Online.

Washington’s traditional approach to balancing the budget is to negotiate an agreement on a package of benefit cuts and tax increases. President Obama’s deficit commission seems likely to recommend just this strategy in December. The problem is that it never works.

What happens is the tax increases get permanently adopted into law. But the spending cuts are almost never fully adopted and, even if they are, they are soon swept away in the next spendthrift budget. Then–because taxes weaken incentives to produce–the tax increases don’t […]

Ken Klukowski: Three Silver Linings in the Bad Arizona Court Decision

By |2010-07-30T12:27:21-04:00July 30th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing July 29, 2010, on BigGovernment.com.

Wednesday’s federal court decision on Arizona’s immigration law is being rightly criticized for a number of reasons. But there are three silver linings to this situation, which may result in the rule of law prevailing in the end.

On July 28, Judge Susan Bolton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona issued a preliminary injunction—meaning she stopped from going into effect—most of the key provisions in Arizona’s new law. As I’ve written previously, this law should be held constitutional because it’s not an immigration law; it doesn’t […]

Peter Ferrara: The Timeless Principles of American Prosperity

By |2010-07-29T11:47:49-04:00July 29th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing July 28, 2010 on Spectator.org.

We know, based on economic experience, theory, and logic, how to create another economic boom that will last 25 years, or a generation into the future. We achieved that in America from the end of 1982 to the end of 2007, with only two, short, shallow recessions that barely interrupted sustained, robust, economic growth. But that was not the only instance of success. Several times in the last 100 years, whenever the nation’s economic policies adhered to the timeless principles of economic growth and prosperity, our economy has boomed. When it has […]

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