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Federal Judge Rules Bloomberg's NYC 'Stop-and-Frisk' Unconstitutional

By |2013-08-14T05:54:54-04:00August 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 12, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin today invalidated Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s “stop-and-frisk” policy as a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.

As Scheindlin begins the 192-page opinion:

The goals of liberty and safety may be in tension, but they can coexist—indeed the Constitution mandates it…. I emphasize at the outset … that this case is not about the effectiveness of stop and frisk in deterring or combating crime. This Court’s mandate is solely to judge the constitutionality of police behavior, […]

Holder Does End-Run Around Congress on Federal Drug Laws

By |2020-04-23T21:58:16-04:00August 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 12, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Attorney General Eric Holder has just announced an end-run around Congress and given the far left one of its priority action-items, announcing he will not prosecute drug crimes unconnected to gangs or violence. Ironically, he invoked the conservative principle of federalism to do it.

Congress has enacted stiff penalties for various drug crimes, carrying mandatory minimum sentences. According to a leaked copy of his speech today at the American Bar Association (which is a solidly-liberal lawyers’ organization, not any sort of official body for the […]

ACRU Urges Court to Clarify the Right to Carry

By |2020-04-23T21:53:57-04:00August 13th, 2013|

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 […]

How to Fix the Republican Party

By |2013-08-09T09:41:54-04:00August 9th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 7, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

Why does the Republican Party keep nominating all these loser candidates, like Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney? Why did Republican primary voters pick George Bush over Jack Kemp in 1988? Why did they pick Romney over more conservative candidates, including some proven winners?

There is a structural problem in the party’s presidential primary system that leads to these results.

The GOP Presidential primaries are dominated by corporate executive donors who tend to support […]

Congress, States, And Even Obama's DOJ Rally To Prayer-Givers' Defense

By |2020-04-23T21:52:42-04:00August 9th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 8, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Congress, half of the states across the nation, and many others are rallying to defend public prayer in a major case at the U.S. Supreme Court. Even the Obama administration weighed in with a surprising legal brief in what is shaping up to be a major religious-liberty case—and could even become the biggest religious-liberty win in over half a century.

This is an update to our on Town of Greece v. Galloway, regarding whether prayers at government events are an unconstitutional violation of […]

ACRU Asks Court to Use 'Coercion Test' in Freedom to Pray Case

By |2020-04-23T21:53:57-04:00August 8th, 2013|

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

By |2020-04-23T21:53:57-04:00August 7th, 2013|

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 […]

How Does President Obama's Economic Recovery Compare to Those of Other Presidents?

By |2013-08-07T09:41:02-04:00August 7th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 4, 2013 on Forbes.com.

President Obama is on a national economic policy speaking tour, with a series of speeches across the country on finally getting the economy growing again, now in his fifth year in office. It is a subject long overdue.

President Obama and his paid spokespeople like to point out that the economy is doing better now than during the depths of the last recession, which ended in official records four years ago! But economies always do […]

Culture Clash in the High Country

By |2013-08-05T11:21:21-04:00August 5th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published August 5, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

OURAY, Colo. — Just because the mountain air is thin at 7,800 feet and the New Age is evident in various ways doesn’t mean that Coloradans have totally lost their sense of reality.

In Ouray, for example, a town that is arguably the most scenic in the nation (nickname: “the Switzerland of America”) the town council on July 15 adopted a moratorium on retail marijuana shops.

Colorado’s voters, who went for Barack Obama in 2012, also legalized possession and sales, but they […]

Citizens Claim Pentagon Forced Them to Shut Down Charity for Deployed Soldiers

By |2013-07-31T06:03:28-04:00July 31st, 2013|

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

A Virginia woman has shut down a website for a charity operation meant to help American troops deployed in Afghanistan in response to what she describes as harassment and intimidation from U.S. military leadership.

Breitbart News‘s Liz Sheld reported in May on how Virginia woman RoxAnne Christley organized an effort to help provide hometown comforts for troops in Afghanistan. Christley heard that an Afghanistan hospital unit lacked clean bed sheets, with some supplies bloodstained or torn. Thus, she organized a charitable […]

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