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Partial Defeat for Arizona at Supreme Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 25, 2012 on Breitbart.com.
Major provisions of Arizona’s S.B. 1070 were held unenforceable by the Supreme Court because they conflict with federal law, though the Court unanimously upheld its most controversial provision. So the biggest immigration case in U.S. history was a mixed result, one in which President Barack Obama won more than Governor Jan Brewer, in a case reminding us that America’s Supreme Court is anything but conservative.
Two important points at the outset about Arizona v. United States that the media isn’t discussing.
First, this case […]
Court Upholds Key Provision in Arizona Case, ACRU Says
Ruling in Arizona v. United States lets officers check immigration status during lawful stops, while striking down other elements of SB 1070.
WASHINGTON — “We’re disappointed in much of today’s ruling, but the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the key right of law enforcement officials to inquire as to immigration status during traffic stops,” said Susan A. Carleson, Chairman and CEO of the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU), which filed a Supreme Court brief in February in support of Arizona.
“If the federal government won’t do the job of enforcing our border, we believe Arizona and other states have the constitutional right to defend it themselves,” […]
U.S. Still Stuck in Recession
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 22, 2012 on The Washington Times website.
This latest recession started in December 2007. Since the Great Depression 75 years ago, recessions in America have lasted an average of 10 months, with the longest previously lasting 16 months, not counting this latest spooky downturn.
The National Bureau of Economic Research, the recognized scorekeeper of recessions, declared this latest recession over in June 2009, which would make it the longest recession since the Great Depression. The historical precedent in America […]
ACLU Friends Sex Offenders
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 14, 2012 on The Washington Times website.
Well, there they go again, carrying water for their army of odd men in raincoats. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana is suing to strike down a state law forbidding convicted sex offenders from using social media such as Facebook.
The state argues that allowing released felons on social media opens up opportunities for them to troll for children on the Internet.
“It’s hard to come up with an example of a sexual predator who doesn’t use some form of […]
The Supreme Court and Obamacare: Eight Possible Outcomes
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 13, 2012 on Breitbart.com.
Everyone is now waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to hand down its decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, the name of the case frequently referred to simply as “Obamacare.”
Lawyers argued four issues before the justices who will decide the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and there are eight possible outcomes. Some are more likely than others, and some are more consequential than others.
In fact, one would change this country forever.
But aside from that one apocalyptic scenario, there are several outcomes […]
ACRU Asks Supreme Court to Overturn University of Texas Racial Discrimination Policy
May 30 — The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU), in a brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court, asks the Court to overturn a ruling against Abigail Fisher, a white woman denied admission to the University of Texas in 2008 because of her race. Ms. Fisher had superior academic credentials to others who were admitted partly on the basis of race, thus violating her right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, the brief argues.
In Abigail Noel Fisher et al v. University of Texas at Austin, et al, the ACRU argues that race-based admission policies actually can hurt their intended beneficiaries, […]
Rep. Paul Ryan Schools Georgetown on How to Help the Poor
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 10, 2012 on Forbes.com.
On April 26, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan delivered the 2012 Whittington Lecture at Georgetown University focused on his 2013 budget and its implications for poverty programs and the poor. That budget has now passed the House of Representatives.
Ryan addressed the Catholic institution “as a Catholic holding public office” trying to conform his work to Catholic “social doctrine as best I can make of it.” He presented a vision that would be far more effective in helping […]
Taking a Chisel to the Ten Commandments
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 9, 2012 on The Washington Times website.
God Almighty needs an editor, according to a federal judge in Virginia. At least, He does when the Ten Commandments are on government property.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had sued the Giles County school district for posting the Ten Commandments in its public schools, and U.S. District Judge Michael F. Urbanski sent the case to mediation on Monday, suggesting a compromise: deleting the four commandments that mention God.
An Obama appointee, Judge Urbanski also issued a preliminary injunction on behalf […]
Mitt Romney, Conservative Cultural Icon
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 9, 2012 on The American Spectator website.
Obamunistas are saying that Obama is cool, and Romney is not. But cool to whom? Cool is in the eye of the beholder.
I have to admit that if you are an aging hippie who never grew up, still think that the counterculture of the 1960s was the highwater mark of American civilization, reject America’s capitalist economic system as inherently unfair and uncool in the grubby pursuit of profit, see America’s historic world-leading prosperity as crass […]