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From Hugs to Hand-Wringing: Watching the Legal Left Freak Out at the Supreme Court

By |2020-04-23T21:54:01-04:00April 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 1, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Over the past several years, I’ve been to the Supreme Court dozens of times to cover cases. Some of them have been blockbusters such as the Citizens United v. FEC campaign finance case, the Snyder v. Phelps (crazy Westboro protesters) free speech case, and the McDonald v. Chicago Second Amendment case.

Yet the Obamacare case is in a class by itself.

There were national heavyweights in the courtroom each of the three days, but it was the red-carpet crowd on Tuesday for the individual […]

Eric Holder Is at War with Gun Owners' Rights

By |2020-04-23T21:54:01-04:00March 21st, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 20, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

This week we’ve seen confirmation that the National Rifle Association has been right all along about President Obama’s choice for attorney general to lead the Department of Justice.

Taken with Eric Holder’s arguments at the Supreme Court, and Operation Fast and Furious, the picture emerges of an inveterate opponent of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

When Holder was U.S. attorney for D.C. in 1995, he gave a speech to the Woman’s National Democratic Club about firearms. He shockingly argued that “what we need […]

ATF Wins First Round against Gun Owners in Border-State Lawsuit

By |2020-04-23T21:54:02-04:00January 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 18, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Gun owners just lost the first round in a court struggle with President Obama’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

ATF issued orders requiring all firearm dealers in the border states (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California) to report to ATF purchases of multiple semi-auto rifles, under the auspices of stopping Mexican drug cartels from paying operatives to buy guns in America and smuggle them into Mexico (because we all know the bang-up job Obama’s people have done stopping gun-running).

But the Firearm […]

Holder's Choice: Name a Fast and Furious Special Prosecutor or Face Impeachment

By |2020-04-23T21:54:02-04:00December 10th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 9, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Official Obama administration explanations for Operation Fast and Furious keep changing with each new wave of revelations. If Attorney General Eric Holder won’t appoint a special prosecutor, this scandal could end in his impeachment.

Republican congressmen put Holder in a vice-grip Thursday during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, interrogating him over the notorious gun-running scandal into Mexico.

This latest round of questions came after the Department of Justice (DOJ) dumped another 1,000 pages of Fast and Furious documents requested months ago by Congress. […]

Gingrich Follows FDR with Court-Packing Scheme

By |2020-04-23T21:54:02-04:00November 22nd, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 20, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s idea for checking judicial activism is a textbook case of historical revisionism that is strikingly similar to the court-packing scheme of liberal icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Gingrich says Congress should just pass a law eliminating specific judgeships, presumably immediately ousting the activist judges currently filling those seats.

Gingrich lionizes an incident now regarded as profoundly troubling by constitutional scholars. When Thomas Jefferson replaced John Adams as president in 1801, the outgoing Congress created new federal courts and judgeships, which Adams […]

Full Docket as Supreme Court Term Begins

By |2020-04-23T21:54:02-04:00September 30th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published September 29, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Monday, Oct. 3, marks the start of the annual term for the Supreme Court of the United States. Most of the court’s docket was set as of this week’s preterm conference, painting a picture of what to expect this year.

On their first day, the justices will hear a case on whether private parties have standing to sue states over Medicaid funding, or whether only the federal government can do so. This could prove decisive in many lawsuits, such as Planned Parenthood’s fight to keep subsidies […]

The Downward Spiral

By |2020-04-23T21:54:02-04:00August 24th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 24, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

Accelerating downward spiral. That is what I have been predicting for the Obama Administration for over two years. And now it’s happening. Events are spinning out of control.

Rising inflation is restricting the Fed’s options for keeping the economy high on monetary stimulus crack. The result? Fast developing market chaos.

On account of President Obama’s economic policies, the economy never recovered from the last recession. Now it may go back into full scale recession before […]

Bat's the Way It Is for Unarmed Britons

By |2020-04-23T21:54:02-04:00August 15th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published August 13, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.

In the midst of riots, arson and looting, British citizens armed themselves with … aluminum bats.

A Louisville Slugger is no match for a mob, but when your Socialist government makes it virtually impossible to own a gun, you grab whatever you can to protect yourself, your family and your property.

Online sales of aluminum bats on Amazon.com increased by 6,000 percent during the violence, according to CNN. Most British police don’t carry guns. The situation is a far cry from […]

'Clean' Balanced Budget Amendment Could Be Trap for Conservatives

By |2020-04-23T21:53:45-04:00July 31st, 2011|

This article by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 31, 2011 on BigGovernment.com.

Liberals are trying to kill the prospect of a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) in the ongoing battle over the debt ceiling. Some on the Right respond that they might settle for a “clean” BBA. But there are two types of a clean BBA, one of which would be even worse than the terrible mess we have today.

Some advocate that the BBA should require only that federal outlays cannot exceed federal tax revenues. They see it as two numbers, […]

ACRU Brief Argues for 'Coercion Test' in Utah Highway Cross Case

By |2020-04-23T21:54:03-04:00May 24th, 2011|

May 23, 2011 – Memorial crosses honoring fallen Utah Highway Patrol Officers are not an unconstitutional establishment of religion because there is no coercion involved, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) argues in an amicus curiae brief filed today in the U.S. Supreme Court.

The ACRU’s brief in support of the Petitioners in Davenport et al. v. American Atheists, Inc., urges the Court to grant certiorari to review the ruling of the Tenth Circuit finding the cross memorials to be an unconstitutional establishment of the Christian religion.

“This case presents an opportunity for an historic, landmark ruling that will return Establishment Clause law to the […]

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