ACRU Defends Legislative Authority Over Redistricting
7/27: The ACRU filed an amicus brief in support of a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the Pennsylvania redistricting case.
ACRU Files Amicus Brief in Alabama Voter ID Case
4/10: The ACRU filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Merrill, arguing that the appeals court should hold that Alabama’s voter-ID law is permitted by the federal Voting Rights Act.
ACRU Files Supreme Court Brief in Support of President’s Travel Restrictions
3/9: President Donald Trump’s "extreme vetting" policy has been attacked by the Left. In his amicus brief at the Supreme Court, the ACRU’s Ken Klukowski argues why Proclamation 9645 is fully consistent with the Constitution.
PA Supreme Court Redistricting Map Heavily Skewed
3/7: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s map likely fails its own gerrymandering standards, because it skews so heavily democratic. The map submitted by the ACRU had more compact districts and fewer political subdivision splits.
ACRU Submits Superior Map in PA Redistricting Case
2/20: The American Civil Rights Union has submitted a map to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which by all accounts is superior to all other submitted maps.
No Gerrymandering Here
2/5: ACRU tells the Supreme Court that the district court undermined judicial credibility by imposing a last minute legislative map on North Carolina, using a series of highly novel factual findings and legal theories.
US Supreme Court Agrees with ACRU: Issues Stay in NC Redistricting Case
1/18: ACRU’s amicus brief argued that the district court’s demand for a redrawn legislative map was unreasonable.
ACRU Joined an Amicus Brief with the Pacific Legal Foundation.
The ACRU joined the Pacific Legal Foundation in filing an amicus brief, urging the Supreme Court to grant Brott v. United States, a case about whether property owners are entitled to a jury when the federal government takes their land.
Donald J. Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project; Donald J. Trump v. Hawaii
The legal challenges to President Trump’s immigration executive order regarding terror-prone nations should be dismissed from court for all the reasons the U.S. Justice Department explains in its Supreme Court legal brief.
ACRU: Free Speech for Thee but Not for Me?
Minnesota voter had right to wear Gadsden flag and “Please I.D. Me” button at polling place.