ACRU Staff, Author at American Constitutional Rights Union

Jan LaRue: Bin Laden, Manson, and Martha

By ACRU Staff|2010-03-21T19:23:42-04:00March 21st, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote a column appearing on AmericanThinker.com on March 21, 2010.

According to the Obama administration, America-haters will turn warm and cuddly toward us when they watch our civil justice system try jihadists as if they’re a remnant of the Manson Family.

But the biggest, baddest jihadist of all won’t get a Miranda warning because he’s a dead man walking, according to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Holder’s injudicious blunder came after Republican members of a House appropriations subcommittee Tuesday asked him why the administration is insistent upon giving terrorists the same constitutional rights as Americans. Here’s his […]

Peter Ferrara: The Obamacare Deficit Fraud

By ACRU Staff|2010-03-19T12:21:44-04:00March 19th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on BigGovernment.com on March 19, 2010.

President Obama has been barnstorming the country saying that CBO scores his health care takeover plan as reducing the deficit by over $100 billion in the first 10 years, and by almost a trillion dollars over the second 10 years. What is that based on?

Wading deep into documents available from CBO and the House and Senate Budget Committees reveals that the claim that Obamacare, in the form of the Senate health bill Democrats are now trying to deem through the House, would reduce the deficit is based […]

ACLU Asks Court to Join America's Enemies

By ACRU Staff|2010-03-18T17:49:35-04:00March 18th, 2010|

The ACLU has filed a suit asking a federal court to force the federal government to reveal information about the use of predator drones against terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The ACLU is attempting to use the Freedom of Information Act to reveal, and thereby thwart, an effective weapon in the war against terrorists.

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Some of the facts for this article, but none of the legal conclusions, come from an announcement by the ACLU that it has filed suit asking a court to order the federal government to provide certain information about America’s use of drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan to […]

Robert Knight: National Suicide by Self Execution

By ACRU Staff|2010-03-18T16:44:07-04:00March 18th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote a column appearing on Townhall.com on March 17, 2010.

Assisted suicide is still illegal in most of the United States. But Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama are doing their impression of the helpful Dr. Kevorkian, egging on the House to approve a “self-executing” rule that would kill the nation’s health care system by suffocating it under the big hand of government.

Aptly named the “Slaughter Rule” after House Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., the idea is for House Members to vote on a batch of “fixes” to the Senate bill—not the original bill itself—and […]

John Armor: Toyotas Aren't the Only Things Getting Recalled This Year

By ACRU Staff|2010-03-17T12:44:45-04:00March 17th, 2010|

ACRU legal counsel John Armor wrote this column on March 17, 2010.

On Tuesday, the New Jersey Court of Appeals cleared the way for the recall of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) to proceed. New Jersey is one of nine states whose constitutions provide broad language with regard to recalling “all, every, any” elected official. This decision could severely endanger the 11 other sitting Senators (all Democrats) in those states, who are not up for re-election this year but could be subject to citizen recall efforts. (For details go to www.recallcongressnow.org.)

The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus brief in this […]

Peter Ferrara: Let the Recalls Begin

By ACRU Staff|2010-03-17T11:42:11-04:00March 17th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on FOXNews.com on March 17, 2010.

A New Jersey state appellate court yesterday gave the green light for approval of the circulation of petitions in that state asking for a recall election to remove Democrat U.S. Senator Robert Menendez. State law in 9 states counting New Jersey specifically provides for the recall of members of Congress, just as former California Governor Gray Davis was recalled and replaced with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a recall election in 2003. Those 9 states are represented by 12 incumbent Democratic Senators who are not otherwise up for […]

Ken Klukowski: No Terrorist Lawyers at Justice Department

By ACRU Staff|2010-03-12T15:28:39-05:00March 12th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on FOXNews.com on March 12, 2010.

Over the past few days, top lawyers from conservative and libertarian circles have risen to the defense of liberal lawyers at the Justice Department, who are wrongly being attacked for having represented terrorist detainees during the Bush years. While the frustration driving those attacks is understandable, we can’t let partisan politics get in the way of the rule of law.

This week leading conservatives and libertarians have responded to attacks by Liz Cheney and Keep America Safe against a number of lawyers in the […]

Ken Blackwell: Hail to the Chief Justice

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:59-04:00March 12th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on The Daily Caller.com on March 12, 2010.

When the young John Roberts was confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States in 2005, he declined to put those gold stripes on his robes. They’re the ones that the late William Rehnquist had devised to indicate his status as first among equals on the nation’s high court. “I’ll have to earn them,” Roberts said modestly. He just did. He gave a powerful rejoinder this week to President Obama’s unprecedented foray into demagoguery.

It’s more than a tempest in a teapot. Last January, President Obama took […]

Ken Blackwell: If Guantánamo Closes, use ADAK!

By ACRU Staff|2010-03-11T17:18:29-05:00March 11th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote a column appearing on BigGovernment.com on March 11, 2010.

I have to say, I did not agree with Sen. McCain during the 2008 campaign when he took the Guantánamo issue off the table by endorsing candidate Obama’s call to close it. The U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is an ideal place to hold military tribunals for jihadists captured on the battlefield. And it would still be the ideal place to hold Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year old Nigerian jihadist, who tried to blow up his inbound jet in Detroit on Christmas Day.

Claims that detainees were being […]