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ACRU Urges Court to Clarify the Right to Carry

By |2020-04-23T21:53:57-04:00August 13th, 2013|

Maryland law reduces Second Amendment’s guarantee of right to bear arms largely to home and hearth, group contends in court brief.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Maryland is unconstitutionally restricting citizens’ right of self defense outside the home, argues an American Civil Rights Union amicus brief submitted Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In Woollard and Second Amendment Foundation, Inc. v. Gallagher, et al, the brief, written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, asks the Court to hear the case, and states:

“There is nothing in the language of the Second Amendment, or of this Court’s governing, binding precedents in Heller and McDonald, that limits the […]

Congress, States, And Even Obama's DOJ Rally To Prayer-Givers' Defense

By |2020-04-23T21:52:42-04:00August 9th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 8, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Congress, half of the states across the nation, and many others are rallying to defend public prayer in a major case at the U.S. Supreme Court. Even the Obama administration weighed in with a surprising legal brief in what is shaping up to be a major religious-liberty case—and could even become the biggest religious-liberty win in over half a century.

This is an update to our on Town of Greece v. Galloway, regarding whether prayers at government events are an unconstitutional violation of […]

ACRU Asks Court to Use 'Coercion Test' in Freedom to Pray Case

By |2020-04-23T21:53:57-04:00August 8th, 2013|

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Aug. 6, 2013) — Is allowing prayer at public meetings an example of the free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment or an illegal governmental establishment of religion?

To assist courts in threading this needle, the ACRU is promoting a unique, new doctrine called the Coercion Test.

In a brief filed on Aug. 2 at the U.S. Supreme Court in Town of Greece v. Susan Galloway and Linda Stevens, ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara defends the upstate New York town’s practice of allowing rotating, voluntary prayers before council meetings and explains the Coercion Test:

“At the time the First […]

NRA Takes Case Against Obama's ATF to Supreme Court

By |2020-04-23T21:53:57-04:00August 7th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 5, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) sued the Obama administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) over a federal law denying law-abiding young adults their Second Amendment right to own a handgun. After fighting it out in the lower courts, the NRA has now petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case.

The case is NRA v. BATFE, and the lawyers representing the NRA are the best in the nation on this issue.

Federal law allows all law-abiding adults (meaning ages 18 and […]

How Does President Obama's Economic Recovery Compare to Those of Other Presidents?

By |2013-08-07T09:41:02-04:00August 7th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 4, 2013 on Forbes.com.

President Obama is on a national economic policy speaking tour, with a series of speeches across the country on finally getting the economy growing again, now in his fifth year in office. It is a subject long overdue.

President Obama and his paid spokespeople like to point out that the economy is doing better now than during the depths of the last recession, which ended in official records four years ago! But economies always do […]

There's an Economic Boom Lurking Once President Obama's Second Term Ends

By |2013-07-30T07:14:31-04:00July 30th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published July 28, 2013 on Forbes.com.

The magician’s trick is deception, based on misdirection and distraction. He draws your attention over here, while he is carrying out the trick over there. President Obama’s economic policy speech last week at Knox College in Galesville, Ill. was a classic case of such misdirection, distraction, and deception.

He talked a lot about championing the middle class, a ploy he learned from Saul Alinsky, while all his policies have been trashing the middle class. […]

Holder Declares War on Texas, Ignores Supreme Court

By |2020-04-23T21:58:16-04:00July 26th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 25, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Attorney General Eric Holder has launched a war against Texas, and in doing so is defying the Supreme Court of the United States. The imminent judicial beat-down of Holder highlights that this case is not about the rule of law and instead abuses the federal courts for political purposes to rile up the far left and demonize Republicans.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) was enacted pursuant to the Constitution’s Fifteenth Amendment, making it illegal to deny someone’s voting rights due to race. Under […]

Military Censors Christian Chaplain, Atheists Call for Punishment

By |2020-04-23T21:52:42-04:00July 26th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 24, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

A Christian chaplain in the military is being officially censored for engaging in free speech, and anti-Christian activists are demanding he be punished.

Lt. Col. Kenneth Reyes is a Christian chaplain currently serving in the U.S. Air Force. He is stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. As an ordained clergyman whose duties are to provide religious instruction and spiritual counseling, he has a page on the base’s website called “Chaplain’s Corner.”

Reyes recently wrote an essay entitled, “No Atheists in Foxholes: Chaplains Gave […]

Court Rules for Hobby Lobby in HHS Mandate Case, Supreme Court Next?

By |2013-07-24T11:44:43-04:00July 24th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Home-retailer Hobby Lobby–owned by the Green family, who are devout Christians–just dealt the Obamacare HHS mandate a devastating one-two punch. It’s likely the Obama administration will have no choice but to now petition the U.S. Supreme Court–where President Barack Obama’s signature legislation is in danger of suffering a humiliating defeat.

The HHS mandate is not in the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare); it’s a regulation implementing a plain-vanilla section of the ACA requiring “preventive services”–and requires all employers to cover abortion-related services.

Many […]

When Government Grows Like Kudzu

By |2013-07-22T11:41:09-04:00July 22nd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published July 22, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

The federal government is growing like kudzu. That’s the Japanese ivy plant that’s taking over roadsides all over the south and is even invading the north.

Kudzu does some good, holding the ground and so on, but the price is steep: It kills the other plants, trees and bushes by smothering them. It’s kind of pretty in the summer, like the topiary animals at Disney World, full of fanciful shapes. In the states that have cold winters, though, it leaves a tangled mess […]

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