Reality May Be Optional
One of the wonders of modern times is that reality is often seen as a social construct and therefore optional.
Striking a Blow Against the Obama Bullet Ban
Vigilance has thwarted the gun controllers for now.
It’s the Hateful Folk Who Are Never Guilty of Hate
When it comes to assigning culpability for crimes by disturbed individuals, it depends on who the victims and perpetrators are.
Dems' Power Grab Will Cost Them the War Over the Constitution in Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 26, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
Winning a battle that costs you a war is no victory.
The silver lining from President Obama’s and Senate Democrats’ unprecedented power grab last week is that now a conservative Republican president can appoint a Supreme Court that will restore the Constitution to its historical place in our nation’s life, revitalizing limited government and safeguarding fundamental rights.
Had conservatives invoked the nuclear option, mainstream media outlets would have given it wall-to-wall coverage under the banner, “The Death of Democracy in America.” MSNBC hosts might have openly wept on […]
The Anti-Cuccinelli Axis
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 7, 2013 on the American Spectator website.
The roots of Ken Cuccinelli’s 2.5 point loss to ultrapartisan national Democrat and Hillary Clinton stalking horse Terry McAuliffe were planted by Republican incumbent Gov. Bob McDonnell.
McDonnell began with a damn good start on state fiscal issues, cutting back runaway state overspending to balance the budget with no tax increases. But he finished by throwing in with the crony capitalist Northern Virginia business establishment, which always wants more tax increases (on others) to finance still more road building. McDonnell consequently ended his […]
Bloomberg's Astroturf Mayors
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published on October 1, 2013 on The Daily Caller website.
By now, you’d think Michael Bloomberg would have learned his lesson.
The out-of-touch New York City mayor has lately made it his business to be in everyone else’s business—whether that means trying to decide for New York residents what they are allowed to eat or drink, or trying to tell people from other states what to think of their elected officials.
More often than not, however, Mayor Bloomberg’s overreaches have been repelled. The courts struck down Bloomberg’s ban on large sodas. […]
Cruz's Green Eggs and the Media Hambones
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 30, 2013 on The Washington Times website.
C-SPAN is more powerful than a fleet of little red wagons, but it felt a lot like “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” as Sen. Ted Cruz demolished the legitimacy of Obamacare in his 21-hour, 19-minute floor speech last week.
In the classic film, a naive junior senator played by Jimmy Stewart performs a heroic, overnight filibuster to expose corruption. The media suppress it and viciously attack his character. An army of wagon-pulling children try to report the truth via homespun “newspapers,” only to […]
ACRU Urges Court to Clarify the Right to Carry
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 […]
ACRU Asks Court to Use 'Coercion Test' in Freedom to Pray Case
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
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 […]