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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.

Stage Set for Recall Battle in North Dakota

By |2010-04-06T11:47:18-04:00April 6th, 2010|

ACRU Responds to North Dakota Secretary of State’s Denial of Citizens’ Effort to Recall Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND)

Bismarck, ND—North Dakota is one of ten states with broad language in its constitution to recall elected officials (www.recallcongressnow.org). Yet, in a letter dated 25 March, 2010, Alvin Jaeger, North Dakota’s Secretary of State, refused to provide the procedures by which a member of Congress could be recalled from the office they hold to a citizen of North Dakota. The ACRU contends that to deny this request is to deny the citizens of North Dakota their constitutional right of recall.

In response […]

ACLU Demand for Gitmo Info Rejected by Court

By |2010-04-05T15:45:42-04:00April 5th, 2010|

The ACLU was back in court this week, asking a federal judge to force the CIA to reveal in public documents and information about the interrogation of certain detainees at Gitmo. For the second time, the judge refused the demand because to release that information in public would “harm national security.”

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Some of the facts for this article, but none of the legal conclusions, come from Associated Press article on Google news, on 6 April, 2010. The article recites that a U.S. District Judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein, denied for the second time an ACLU demand that the government “release the names and […]

John Armor: Is a State-Based Recall of a U.S. Senator Constitutional?

By |2010-04-01T11:17:38-04:00April 1st, 2010|

ACRU legal counsel John Armor wrote this column appearing on the AmericanThinker.com website on April 1, 2010.

Whether citizens of a state have the right to recall from office a sitting U.S. senator is no longer an academic question. The second-highest New Jersey appeals court has just ruled that such an effort can proceed against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ).

Several other states have provisions in their state constitutions and laws that may also allow recall efforts. And by the common provision of initiative by the people of state laws and constitutions, similar processes could be established in other states.

So the question that […]

FCC 'Distinguished Scholar' Trashes the First Amendment

By |2020-04-23T21:53:46-04:00March 31st, 2010|

A “distinguished scholar” at the FCC has written in favor of government payments for and control of aspects of Internet communications. Her purpose is to favor news that the government prefers, and to “filter” and counterbalance news that the government finds to be lacking. She demonstrates thinking that King George III exemplified, and the exact opposite of the thinking of Thomas Jefferson, concerning freedom of the press.

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Some of the facts for this article, but none of the legal conclusions, come from an article in CNS News on 31 March, 2010. It is an article […]

Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Border Murder Highlights Administration's Failure

By |2010-03-31T11:55:35-04:00March 31st, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on March 31, 2010.

The tragic murder of a Good Samaritan rancher in Arizona has people yelling for an effective response to this outrage. Although most illegal immigrants are just human beings that are desperately seeking to provide for themselves and their families, this murder shines a spotlight on the Obama administration’s utter failure to secure our borders and uphold the rule of law.

A top story on March 30 is that Arizona rancher Robert Krentz was apparently gunned down by an illegal immigrant. Krentz’s family […]

Ken Klukowski: Groups Can Speak Now… If They Register

By |2020-04-23T21:52:59-04:00March 30th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on March 30, 2010.

A top federal appeals court has decided in a major campaign finance case. Whether this case goes to the Supreme Court or not, it indicates that in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United case that Americans will continue to enjoy more of their First Amendment rights, as we head into an election cycle where free speech spells big trouble for Team Obama.

On January 21, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. FEC, in which the Court held that citizens joining together in corporate associations are […]

Mark Levin on RecallCongressNow.org

By |2010-03-28T21:01:37-04:00March 28th, 2010|

Here’s what Mark Levin had to say about RecallCongressNow.org and ACRU CEO/Chairman Susan Carleson.

“Well, ladies and gentlemen, it has been brought to my attention—you’re going to like this—that there is a national effort, and a serious effort, by serious people who I know to recall members of Congress—and legally.

And I believe they had a legal victory recently in New Jersey. And that website is…www.recallcongressnow.org.

And the attorney who works on that is somebody I have enormous respect for and I’ve talked about him on the show before: Peter Ferrara. And he’s a solid conservative.

So […]

Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Demonizing Everyday Americans

By |2020-04-23T21:52:59-04:00March 27th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on BigGovernment.com on March 26, 2010.

There appears to be a concerted effort among the political Left and many mainstream media people to demonize and marginalize the expanding citizen-based movement known as the tea party movement. This effort flows from both a fear of what these tea parties represent and a contempt for everyday Americans. But those ordinary citizens are poised to be the ones laughing when it’s all over, when democracy takes its course.

There seems to be a consensus now among the liberal elite when it […]

Ken Blackwell: The Kiss of Death

By |2010-03-25T11:57:30-04:00March 25th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on March 25, 2010.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) gave Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) a kiss on the cheek on Sunday, just before Stupak stunned pro-lifers by leading his group of previous holdouts in voting for the largest expansion of abortion-on-demand since Roe v. Wade. That’s what the just-signed ObamaCare bill means.

Stupak, of course, was the author of the Stupak Amendment that passed the House in November with 240 votes, 64 of them coming from pro-life Democrats like Stupak himself. Weiner is one of the most liberal—and most pro-abortion—members of a militantly pro-abortion […]

Robert Knight: As the Elites Celebrate, the Resistance to Obamacare Begins

By |2010-03-23T12:45:40-04:00March 23rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote a column appearing on Townhall.com on March 22, 2010.

There were undoubtedly lots of hangovers in Washington, D.C. on Monday morning, remnants of the packed saloons the night before. Washington’s socialists (read: Democrats), giddy with victory over the House voting 219-212 to pass Obama’s government takeover of health care, could barely contain themselves.

Happy footage abounded on the government mouthpiece networks the next morning (CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC). By contrast, Tea Party protesters were shown in the worst light. The Washington Post ran a front page analysis by Dana Milbank calling the crowd “unruly” and “a […]

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