On June 12, Richard Miniter will be on CTV for a 3-5 minute interview sometime between 2:00-3:00pm ET. He will be talking about the newly released white paper on the War on Terror and the Supreme Court decision on Guantanamo.
On June 12, The American Civil Rights Union released a white paper written by Richard Miniter about the US War on Terror. Quite simply, Miniter concludes the US is losing the War on Terror in the courts. To view the white paper, click here.
New Study Exposes the “Terrorist Get Out of Jail Free Card”
In a report released today by the American Civil Rights Union, best-selling author and terrorism expert Richard Miniter demonstrates how a 1969 Supreme Court ruling is being used to get terrorists off scot-free–an extremely pertinent issue, given today’s ruling by the Supreme Court that Guantanamo Bay detainees are allowed access to civilian courts.
The case, Brandenburg v. Ohio, effectively safeguards suspected terrorists from prosecution by categorizing their fatwas–or calls to terrorism–as protected free speech if the threat does not designate a specific date and […]
The California Assembly has already passed, and its Senate is now considering, a “diversity” bill that would require all of its major foundations to report information on the racial and sexual backgrounds of all of their boards and staffs, as well as the boards and staffs of the charities they support. They would also have to report the degree to which they support, or are run by, certain preferred minorities. The mere stating of what the bill does should alarm most that this is a bad idea.
The facts for this story, but not the legal conclusions, come from an opinion article in the Wall Street […]
The town of Mattawa in Washington State has been overrun by new “residents” who are almost entirely illegal aliens from Mexico. The response of the federal government has been to force this town of several hundred legal, English-speaking residents, to spend money it doesn’t have, to hire translators for the illegal aliens, to make their take-over of the town easier.
The facts for this story, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article from the Seattle Times on 26 May, 2008. After pressure from the US government, a Washington town of a few hundred residents has been forced, at its own expense, to […]
On May 27th, the California Supreme Court heard a case which could have a drastic effect on religious freedom in that state.
From the San Diego Union Tribune:
The issue is whether fertility physicians at North Coast Women’s Care in Vista discriminated against a lesbian couple from Oceanside when they cited religious beliefs in refusing to perform artificial insemination….
…That group says this is a “potentially landmark, historic case” that will decide the scope of religious freedom in the state constitution.
The ACRU filed an amicus brief on this case, arguing that a doctor has the right to refuse […]
The ACRU joins other organizations supporting homeschooling to file this brief in a California state appellate court arguing for a constitutional right for parents to choose homeschooling for their children. The argument is based on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech, relying in particular on precedents holding that parents have a constitutional right to choose private rather than public schools for their children, and that Amish parents can choose the alternative of working at home within the Amish culture rather than attending public high schools.
On August 8, 2008 the Second Appellate District in a 3-0 decision, ruled that homeschooling is a legitimate form of […]
The ACLU and its allies among the national and state teachers unions have attacked school voucher programs wherever they appear. Though the US Supreme Court and several state high courts have ruled in favor of vouchers that provide state aid to students leaving inadequate public schools, the latest case is a temporary victory in Arizona over the needs of disabled and foster children. It is an intermediate appeals court ruling that will probably go to that state’s supreme court.
The facts for this story, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article from the Associated Press on 15 May, as published on azcentral.com. […]
“Presidential claims of a right to preserve the confidentiality of information and documents in the face of legislative demands have figured prominently, though intermittently, in executive-congressional relations since at least 1792. Few such interbranch disputes over access to information have reached the courts for substantive resolution, the vast majority achieving resolution through political negotiation and accommodation. In fact, it was not until the Watergate-related lawsuits in the 1970’s seeking access to President Nixon’s tapes that the existence of a presidential confidentiality Authority was judicially established as a necessary derivative of the President’s status in our constitutional scheme of separated powers. Of the eight court decisions involving interbranch […]
On May 6th at 8:00pm ET, Peter Ferrara will be on The Mike Porcaro Show on KENI out of Anchorage, Alaska. He will be talking about how the ACLU has been attacking Christianity by censoring legislative prayers.
UPDATE: On May 8th at 10:20am ET, Peter will be on The Right Balance with Greg Allen. He will again be talking about the ACLU attacking Christianity. You can find your local station here
