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ACLU Loses Challenge to Indiana's Sex Offender Social Media Law

By |2012-06-27T10:05:16-04:00June 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 27, 2012 on the American Thinker website.

In a victory over odd men in raincoats, a federal judge has upheld Indiana’s 2008 law barring convicted sex offenders from using Facebook, MySpace, and other social media. A class-action suit had been filed against the statute by the American Civil Liberties Union’s Indiana chapter, which immediately threatened to appeal.

“Social networking, chat rooms, and instant messaging programs have effectively created a ‘virtual playground’ for sexual predators to lurk,” wrote U.S. Judge Tanya Walton Pratt in her 18-page June 22 ruling in […]

Partial Defeat for Arizona at Supreme Court

By |2020-04-23T21:58:17-04:00June 26th, 2012|

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

By |2020-04-23T21:58:17-04:00June 25th, 2012|

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,” […]

Coal Matters, Even in Manhattan

By |2012-06-25T13:57:05-04:00June 25th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 24, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.

Coal today may seem of little relevance to many residents of New York City or other American urban centers. It long ago ceased to fuel the furnaces of their homes and apartment buildings in winter.

But long after it disappeared from the uses most visible to city dwellers, coal is still the critical fuel behind the everyday functions of their lives. Across the U.S., for more than a century, coal has remained quietly at work — providing in recent years nearly half the […]

U.S. Still Stuck in Recession

By |2012-06-25T11:07:47-04:00June 25th, 2012|

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 […]

President Obama's Perfect Plan For The Economic Decline Of America

By |2012-06-22T14:56:59-04:00June 22nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 21, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Last week on June 14, President Obama announced his economic plan to finally bring economic recovery and growth to the U.S. in a much ballyhooed address in Cleveland. He threw down the gauntlet to Mitt Romney on the issue, saying “more than anything else, this election presents a choice between two fundamentally different visions of how to create strong sustained growth; how to pay down our long term debt; and most of all, how to generate […]

Priceless John Goodman

By |2012-06-20T15:59:46-04:00June 20th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 20, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

With the publication of his path-breaking book Patient Power in 1992, John Goodman did more to change the course of health care in America than Barack Obama has done, or will do. Goodman has just published a new book, Priceless: Curing the Health Care Crisis, which offers the prospect of a worldwide revolution in health care policy. With the Supreme Court about to rule on Obamacare, this book could not be more timely.

Patient Power argued […]

Racial Double Standards

By |2023-05-20T09:36:58-04:00June 20th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 20, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Back in 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said we were “a nation of cowards” on matters of race. Permit me to be brave and run a few assertions by you just to see whether we’re on the same page. There should be two standards for civilized conduct: one for whites, which is higher, and another for blacks, which is lower. In other words, in the name of justice and fair play, blacks should not be held accountable to the same standards […]

Only Voters Can Hold Obama Accountable for Illegal Amnesty Policy

By |2012-06-18T10:21:15-04:00June 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 17, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

President Obama’s new amnesty policy regarding illegal aliens violates the law. But there’s probably no route to trump it either in Congress or in court, so the only recourse is for the American people to trump it by electing a new president.

Obama’s actions on granting backdoor amnesty fall into two different stages. Each is illegal for different reasons. However, occasionally situations can arise in our constitutional system where there is a “right without a remedy,” where people’s rights are being violated but there’s nothing […]

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