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.
ACRU Applauds Supreme Court’s Ruling to Hear ‘Travel Ban’ Case
The lower courts had misapplied the First Amendment and interfered with the president’s constitutional executive power.
ACRU: Judge in Hawaii Erred in ‘Travel Ban’ Case
The First Amendment “cannot be claimed by foreigners on foreign soil.”
ACRU: Court Wrongly Applied Establishment Clause in Immigration Ban Case
Fourth Circuit brief seeks reversal of U.S. District Court in Maryland’s temporary injunction against president’s “travel ban” from terror-prone countries.
ACRU Joins Brief in ‘Right to Trial by Jury’ Case
Kevin Brott wants a jury trial for his Fifth Amendment claim to just compensation.
ACRU: Ruling Shows Mothers Are ‘Apparently Expendable’
U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion striking down health regulations on Texas abortion clinics will harm, not help women, group says.
North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, et al. v. Patrick L. McCrory, et al.
ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 20, 2016) — Opponents of North Carolina’s voter photo ID law wrongly sought to use an illegal interpretation of the Voting Rights Act to attack North Carolina’s election integrity law, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) argues in a brief filed on June 16 at the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Regarding North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, et al. v. Patrick L. McCrory, et al., the brief, notes that a U.S. District Court rightly rejected the plaintiffs’ claim that the law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
In 2013, in Shelby County v. Holder, the U.S. Supreme […]