ACRU to Supreme Court: Texas Abortion Clinic Law Protects Women
Texas’ law requiring widely adopted medical clinic safeguards in abortion facilities is constitutionally sound and ensures that women are not victimized by substandard care.
Hawaiians Protest Vote on Future Tribal Plan
A group of Hawiians asked the Supreme Court to temporarily stop the completion of an election until their challenge can be decided.
Akina, et al. v. State of Hawaii
Hawaii’s Actions “Brazenly” Violate 15th Amendment, Brief States
ALEXANDRIA, VA (Nov. 24, 2015) — An emergency injunction is needed to stop a race-based election now underway in Hawaii and ending Nov. 30, a brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court by the American Civil Rights Union argues.
“The government has been operating a brazenly racially based voter registration process,” the brief states. Submitted on behalf of the ACRU by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), the brief in Akina, et al. v. State of Hawaii notes that this is the second time that Hawaii has conducted a racially exclusionary election. The last time, appeals […]
Evenwel v. Abbott
The Supreme Court has an opportunity to determine whether only citizens get a political voice in America.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 5, 2015) — In a brief submitted today at the U.S. Supreme Court, the ACRU contends that a Texas policy that includes non-citizens in apportioning districts gives areas with large numbers of non-citizens undue political power.
“The practical result… is that the votes of the residents of districts with larger non-citizen populations count roughly one and a half as much as the votes of the residents of other districts,” states ACRU’s brief in Evenwel v. Abbott.
“The doctrine of one-person, one-vote logically grows directly […]
Kobach v. U.S. Election Assistance Commission
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 21, 2015) – Non-citizens are registering to vote under current federal law, as shown in documents submitted today by the American Civil Rights Union to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The brief asks the high court to hear arguments by Arizona and Kansas in defense of their request to the EAC to include a citizenship question on federal registration forms in those states.
Read the brief (PDF 177 KB)
State of North Carolina, et al. v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina, et al
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 4, 2015) — The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals was mistaken when it overruled a District Court’s opinion upholding a law reforming North Carolina’s voting process just before the 2014 election, the American Civil Rights Union argues in a brief filed Feb. 4, 2015 urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the state’s appeal.
READ THE AMICUS BRIEF HERE. (PDF 111KB)
ACRU: Court’s Taking Case on Obamacare Subsidies ‘May Be Just the Right Medicine’
In a major development that may bode well for reining in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the U. S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge based on the creation of federal health insurance exchanges.
ACRU Asks Supreme Court to Rule on Obamacare Exchange Subsidies
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) acted illegally when it issued an Obamacare rule allowing subsidies for health care insurance purchased in federal exchanges in states that declined to create their own exchanges, a brief filed Wednesday by the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) argues.
ACRU: Full Court Should Rehear Texas Quota Case
Brief calls for reestablishing the "fundamental principles of the Equal Protection Clause."
ACRU: White House Rewriting of ObamaCare Violates Constitutional Separation of Powers
“Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that Congress gives up its designated legislative authority whenever a president decides to legislate on his own.” — American Civil Rights Union Chairman Susan A. Carleson
Washington, D.C. (April 22, 2014) — In an amicus brief filed in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, the ACRU has joined Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and two organizations in support of a lawsuit filed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) that challenges a rule issued by the Obama Administration allowing federal health insurance subsidies for lawmakers and some congressional staff members.
The brief, written by attorney Joel C. Mandelman, notes that the Affordable […]