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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: Guess Who's Coming to Your House? Hidden Dangers in Obamacare

By |2020-04-23T21:54:05-04:00March 10th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on March 10, 2010.

It’s all supposed to be voluntary, those “home visits” that are tucked into the mammoth ObamaCare bill. If you have a strong stomach, and stronger bottom, you can find home visitation on pages 568-595. That’s Section 2951 of H.R. 3590, the Senate bill that Harry Reid brought down the chimney on Christmas Eve.

All voluntary, they say, but once you “volunteer” to have the oh-so-helpful folks from Social Services come in to help with your newborns, or with a number of other specified issues, will you ever be able […]

ACLU Prints Lies in the Times

By |2010-03-08T11:23:27-05:00March 8th, 2010|

The ACLU is trying to push President Obama to maintain the decision that he (not Attorney General Holder) made to try the 9/11 defendants in ordinary criminal court in New York City. Its method is a full-page ad printed in the New York Times. The ad contains several major statements which can best be described as deliberate lies.

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Some of the facts for this article, but none of the legal conclusions, come from an ad that the ACLU published in the New York Times on 7 March, 2010. The point of the ad is that President Obama is morphing into President Bush […]

Peter Ferrara: Obamacare: Still a Threat to Your Life

By |2010-03-04T10:30:43-05:00March 4th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on The American Spectator on March 3, 2010.

The true reality of last week’s health care summit, what was really going on between the lines, was ugly and scary. I have been deeply involved in these health care debates for almost 30 years, ever since I co-authored the first paper published on Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) with John Goodman in 1981. What the health summit made clear to me is that the Democrats do not understand what the Republicans are talking about on health care. Indeed, they have no idea what the American people are talking about […]

Peter Ferrara: Stopping the Runaway Congress

By |2010-03-03T13:37:39-05:00March 3rd, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on BigGovernment.com on March 3, 2010.

The recall of New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez took a step forward yesterday with a promising oral argument in New Jersey state court. The New Jersey Constitution expressly provides for the recall of members of Congress representing the state in a provision adopted by a 75% favorable vote of the people in 1995. The New Jersey state legislature then expressly provided by statute for the procedures for such a recall.

The Committee to Recall Robert Menendez filed papers for the circulation of their petitions to begin last September. […]

ACLU Fights for Votes for Felons

By |2010-03-02T09:20:19-05:00March 2nd, 2010|

In Mississippi the Constitution forbids felons from voting for President. The ACLU brought a challenge to that law, but the Fifth Circuit ruled that the Mississippi law was legitimate under the US Constitution. This case should be contrasted with a Ninth Circuit decision ruling that a Washington State law barring felons from voting violated the federal Voting Rights Act.

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Some of the facts for this article, but none of the legal conclusions, come from an article on the website of the Courthouse News Service on 1 March, 2010. It recounts the decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming that the […]

ACLU Sues California to Make Schools Worse

By |2010-02-25T09:30:01-05:00February 25th, 2010|

The ACLU has invented a legal theory why a court must order L.A. School Board not to lay off teachers because of the state’s bankruptcy, and its effects on the budget of the nation’s largest school district. In naming those at fault, however, the ACLU somehow failed to mention the unions and the Democrat Party. Forcing any subdivision of California to rehire employees it cannot afford, can only make a bad situation worse.

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Some of the facts for this article, but none of the legal conclusions, come from an article in the Los Angeles Times on 24 February. The story reports that […]

Ken Blackwell: Climate Change Debate Over? It's Just Begun!

By |2010-02-24T10:42:51-05:00February 24th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote a column appearing on Townhall.com on February 24, 2010.

Ronald Reagan used to say of the Soviets they liked the arms race a whole lot better when they were the only ones in it. The same could be said of Al Gore and Global Warming—oops, excuse me: Climate Change. Mr. Gore was very much happier to dash around the world in his water vapor-powered personal jet to preach the green gospel of environmentalism. He would tell us which truths were inconvenient. Any dissenters were shouted down as “deniers.” No Pope would ever make claims as far-reaching, as extravagant, as all-embracing […]

Ken Klukowski: "How Dare He Speak!"

By |2020-04-23T21:53:00-04:00February 18th, 2010|

This piece originally appeared on Townhall.com on February 17, 2010.

The ink isn’t yet dry on January’s landmark Supreme Court campaign finance decision Citizens United v. FEC, and already Round Two has begun. As new legislation is planned to limit political speech and some even call for a constitutional amendment, the courts are addressing the next round of constitutional challenges.

Last month the country’s second-highest court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, heard arguments in SpeechNow.org v. FEC. This case was already pending at the D.C. Circuit before the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Citizens’ United. Some aspects of the […]

ACLU Sues Airport Screeners for Doing Their Job

By |2010-02-15T21:48:59-05:00February 15th, 2010|

An American student who was carrying a Jordanian student ID and a passport showing he had recently visited six nations in the Mideast including The Sudan, was held by TSA at the Philadelphia airport until it could be established that he had no hostile intentions, connections, or supplies. Now, the ACLU has filed for damages against the TSA for investigating this individual. Are the ACLU attorneys clinically insane? Or, merely opposed to the protection of America from its enemies?

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Some of the facts for this article, but none of the legal conclusions, come from an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on […]

Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Obama's Big Plans for Justice Department Nominee Johnsen

By |2010-02-10T17:35:33-05:00February 10th, 2010|

This column originally appeared on BigGovernment.com on February 8, 2010.

The Senate is about to act on the nomination of militant leftist Dawn Johnsen to be the chief of the U.S. government’s elite legal team. But that post is a stepping-stone for top judicial offices, including the Supreme Court itself. That’s likely Barack Obama’s plans for Johnsen, and it’s why she must be stopped now.

Ultra-liberal activist Dawn Johnsen, currently a professor at Indiana University School of Law, is President Obama’s nominee to be assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). As the OLC chief, Johnsen would shape […]

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