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Obama's DC Judges: Democrats Started the Fight

By |2013-06-05T07:29:26-04:00June 5th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 4, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Last week we reported that President Obama’s agenda may depend on how many judges he can appoint to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Today Obama nominated three legal heavyweights to fill every vacancy on the D.C. Circuit, potentially setting up a historic battle over how the Senate confirms judges.

There are eleven seats on the D.C. Circuit, which hears most challenges to agency actions (the primary focus for Obama’s agenda since he cannot move major liberal legislation through Congress). There were […]

Scalia Dissents on SCOTUS Decision Upholding DNA Samples of Arrestees

By |2013-06-05T06:42:38-04:00June 5th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 3, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Constitutional protections do not forbid police from taking DNA samples from those arrested for serious crimes, according to the Supreme Court in its 5-4 decision Monday in Maryland v. King.

If someone is arrested on suspicion of having committed certain felonies (not lesser crimes), Maryland law authorized police using a cotton swab to take a DNA sample. Police would then check to see if that DNA matches unsolved crimes in other cases.

All 50 states allow taking DNA from people who are convicted of […]

Drilled by the Quill

By |2020-04-23T21:52:43-04:00June 4th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 3, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

As a longtime, ink-stained wretch, I’m actually glad that some of the Obama administration’s bombs targeting our essential liberties found their way out of the Tea Party kill zone and were dropped instead on the Fourth Estate.

Most of the media are the Obama administration’s most loyal constituents. In fact, they may be the most loyal constituents after the reliable voters in Chicago’s cemeteries.

A liberal administration targeting the media? It’s like giving the dog that’s been biting your opponents a swift […]

Pentagon Denies Relationship with Anti-Christian Extremist; Instantly Complies with His Demands

By |2020-04-23T21:52:43-04:00June 3rd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 2, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

One month ago the Pentagon assured the public it was not being advised by anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein. Yet two days ago Weinstein called the Pentagon demanding that a Christian painting be removed from a dining hall in an Idaho Air Force base, and the Pentagon complied with his demand–in less than one hour.

On Apr. 28, Breitbart News reported that Pentagon brass met with Weinstein and his Military Religious Freedom Foundation. That was shortly after Weinstein published an article in which he called observant […]

Holder's Defense: Diminished Capacity?

By |2020-04-23T21:52:43-04:00June 3rd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published June 2, 2013 on Townhall.com.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, a former prosecutor and judge, is pleading ignorance of the law as his excuse for criminally accusing a journalist of being a journalist. Holder wants Congress to pass a law to shield the press from him.

There are some laws that the nation’s top law enforcement agent ought to have written on his heart. Take the First Amendment, for example. It’s included in that oath Holder swore to God to uphold.

Holder swore another oath on May 15 when […]

Americans Deserve the IRS

By |2023-03-10T08:04:42-05:00May 31st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 29, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Individually, Americans do not deserve to be subservient to such a fear-mongering, intimidating and powerful agency as the Internal Revenue Service; but collectively, we do. Let’s look at it.

Since the 1791 ratification of our Constitution, until well into the 1920s, federal spending as a percentage of gross domestic product never exceeded 5 percent, except during war. Today federal spending is 25 percent of our GDP. State and local government spending is about 15 percent of the GDP. That […]

Obama's Agenda Depends on Packing the DC Circuit Court

By |2013-05-29T15:54:55-04:00May 29th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 29, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

President Barack Obama is finalizing an aggressive strategy to pack a court. It’s not the Supreme Court; it’s the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Whether Obama’s agenda succeeds or fails turns on whether he remakes that court in his image, and Republicans are preparing for battle.

Last week, Breitbart News reported that Sri Srinivasan had been unanimously confirmed as a judge on the D.C. Circuit, and that half the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court came from that court. There […]

SCOTUS Denies Review in Planned Parenthood Funding Case

By |2013-05-29T15:40:04-04:00May 29th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 28, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take a case where a federal appeals court struck down an Indiana law denying Medicaid funds to abortion provider Planned Parenthood.

Medicaid is a federal-state partnership where government pays for healthcare for low-income Americans. It has become increasingly one-sided to the point where now the federal government dictates most details to the states; it’s a partnership in name only. In 2011, Indiana enacted a statute denying future Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the […]

Striking a Sour Note on the Boardwalk

By |2020-04-23T21:52:43-04:00May 28th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 28, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

What do you do if you’re a street fiddler who wants to play as loud as you want, and the cops tell you to pipe down?

Well, you could make a federal case of it.

On April 10, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Maryland against Ocean City, Md., on behalf of William F. Hassay Jr., who has earned money playing his violin on the boardwalk seasonally since 1995, according to the suit.

Senate Confirms Rising Star, Could Be Next SCOTUS Nominee

By |2013-05-28T07:17:22-04:00May 28th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 26, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Sri Srinivasan to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by a vote of 97-0, and he should already be considered someone on President Obama’s short list for the Supreme Court.

Srinivasan has a spectacular legal resume that looks much like John Roberts a decade ago. In 2003, Roberts was a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law, clerked for a top federal appeals judge and then a Supreme Court justice (William Rehnquist), later served […]

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