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Firearm Phobes Exploit School Shooting

By |2012-12-18T11:02:57-05:00December 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published December 18, 2012 on Townhall.com.

When’s the last time you heard about a deranged gunman going on a shooting spree at a shooting range? Other than a spoof article on the Onion, a shooting range isn’t the preferred venue for a murderous shooting rampage.

Despite all of the shooters, guns and ammo, I feel safer at a shooting range than just about anywhere else. It doesn’t require expert analysis to understand why gun-free areas, not shooting ranges, are the preferred venues of those who want to murder as many victims […]

ACRU Files Brief Protecting Integrity of Elections

By |2020-04-23T21:59:27-04:00December 17th, 2012|

Dec. 17, 2012 — The American Civil Rights Union filed a brief on Dec. 14 at the United States Supreme Court in Arizona v. The Intertribal Council of Arizona in support of Arizona’s Proposition 200, which requires prospective voters to provide satisfactory evidence of citizenship to register to vote.

Download the brief here. (PDF)

Appeals Court Oral Arguments Signal Trouble for Obamacare HHS Mandate

By |2020-04-23T21:52:46-04:00December 16th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on December 15, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

A top federal appeals court signaled Friday that it might act on Obamacare’s HHS Mandate–requiring employers to cover birth control and abortion-related services.

After repeated assurances that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would not mandate abortion or people of faith violating their religious beliefs, the Obama administration issued a mandate requiring both, when Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a rule from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) saying that a vague provision in the ACA requiring employers provide “preventive care” means that employer healthcare policies must […]

ACRU Brief Supports Arizona's Citizenship Law for Voting in Federal Elections

By |2020-04-23T21:59:33-04:00December 14th, 2012|

(Alexandria, VA) – The American Civil Rights Union filed a brief today with the United States Supreme Court in Arizona v. The Intertribal Council of Arizona in support of Arizona’s Proposition 200, which requires prospective voters to provide satisfactory evidence of citizenship to register to vote. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a District Court ruling upholding that state law, concluding that federal election law preempts Proposition 200 in regard to federal elections.

“While states continue to move forward in preventing voter fraud by passing Voter ID laws, purging deceased voters from their rolls and blocking non-citizens from casting ballots, liberal groups and activists […]

Our Government-Created Financial Crisis

By |2012-12-13T23:13:53-05:00December 13th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 12, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Suppose you saw a building on fire. Would you seek counsel from the arsonist who set it ablaze for advice on how to put it out? You say, “Williams, you’d have to be a lunatic to do that!” But that’s precisely what we’ve done: turned to the people who created our fiscal crisis to fix it. I have never read a better account of our doing just that than in John A. Allison’s new book, The Financial Crisis and the […]

Seventh Circuit Rules in NRA's Favor in Illinois Gun Law Case

By |2020-04-23T21:54:00-04:00December 13th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on December 5, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

The National Rifle Association just won a major court case in Chicago, providing a huge victory for Second Amendment proponents and gun owners.

Illinois is one of the most anti-gun states in America. Its hostility toward the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is demonstrated in a state law that forbids the carrying of firearms outside the home. There are narrow exceptions for classes of persons such as police officers, or under restrictions that keep the firearm from being readily usable, such […]

Free Speech vs. Sound of Silence

By |2020-04-23T21:52:46-04:00December 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 7, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

In George Orwell’s futuristic novel 1984, a tyrannical government masks its activities through the use of Newspeak — saying or doing something opposite of a word’s meaning.

The Ministry of Plenty oversees rationing and starvation; the Ministry of Peace wages war; the Ministry of Truth dispenses propaganda; and the Ministry of Love conducts torture. The operative slogans are: “War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery,” and “Ignorance is strength.”

A current variant comes to mind, courtesy of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) […]

Why America Is Going to Miss the Bush Tax Cuts

By |2012-12-10T11:35:05-05:00December 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 6, 2012 on Forbes.com.

President Obama seems to have a strategy to terminate all of the Bush tax cuts, not just those for “the rich,” as he has been saying since 2008. He is offering the Republicans exactly zero concessions in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. No spending cuts, no entitlement reform, no compromise on the rates. It is entirely my way or the highway, and if the Republicans refuse to do everything exactly as he demands, he […]

Planting the Seeds of His Own Demise

By |2023-03-10T08:04:44-05:00December 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 5, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Stop that cringing! I can already see the light at the end of the tunnel. And it’s not pretty for today’s neo-Marxist Democrat party.

The man you see before you as your President today bears a striking resemblance to the main character in a Greek tragedy. He so reeks of hubris. Every word that drops from his lips speaks a haughty derision of the lesser beings not benighted to be a cog in his political machine. […]

Federal Appeals Court Likely to Invalidate Obama's Recess Appointments

By |2012-12-06T13:15:16-05:00December 6th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on December 5, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

President Barack Obama made headlines months ago when he installed controversial nominees to key government positions, bypassing the U.S. Senate by declaring the Senate in recess so that Senate confirmation was not needed. Today a federal appeals court signaled that it might rule Obama’s move unconstitutional, and remove those officials from power.

The U.S. Constitution says that Congress can by statute allow minor government players–“inferior officers”–to be appointed by the president, by Cabinet officers, or by the courts. But high-level administrative officials–called “principal officers”–must […]

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