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Robert Knight: National Suicide by Self Execution

By |2010-03-18T16:44:07-04:00March 18th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote a column appearing on Townhall.com on March 17, 2010.

Assisted suicide is still illegal in most of the United States. But Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama are doing their impression of the helpful Dr. Kevorkian, egging on the House to approve a “self-executing” rule that would kill the nation’s health care system by suffocating it under the big hand of government.

Aptly named the “Slaughter Rule” after House Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., the idea is for House Members to vote on a batch of “fixes” to the Senate bill—not the original bill itself—and […]

John Armor: Toyotas Aren't the Only Things Getting Recalled This Year

By |2010-03-17T12:44:45-04:00March 17th, 2010|

ACRU legal counsel John Armor wrote this column on March 17, 2010.

On Tuesday, the New Jersey Court of Appeals cleared the way for the recall of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) to proceed. New Jersey is one of nine states whose constitutions provide broad language with regard to recalling “all, every, any” elected official. This decision could severely endanger the 11 other sitting Senators (all Democrats) in those states, who are not up for re-election this year but could be subject to citizen recall efforts. (For details go to www.recallcongressnow.org.)

The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus brief in this […]

Peter Ferrara: Let the Recalls Begin

By |2010-03-17T11:42:11-04:00March 17th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on FOXNews.com on March 17, 2010.

A New Jersey state appellate court yesterday gave the green light for approval of the circulation of petitions in that state asking for a recall election to remove Democrat U.S. Senator Robert Menendez. State law in 9 states counting New Jersey specifically provides for the recall of members of Congress, just as former California Governor Gray Davis was recalled and replaced with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a recall election in 2003. Those 9 states are represented by 12 incumbent Democratic Senators who are not otherwise up for […]

Ken Klukowski: No Terrorist Lawyers at Justice Department

By |2010-03-12T15:28:39-05:00March 12th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on FOXNews.com on March 12, 2010.

Over the past few days, top lawyers from conservative and libertarian circles have risen to the defense of liberal lawyers at the Justice Department, who are wrongly being attacked for having represented terrorist detainees during the Bush years. While the frustration driving those attacks is understandable, we can’t let partisan politics get in the way of the rule of law.

This week leading conservatives and libertarians have responded to attacks by Liz Cheney and Keep America Safe against a number of lawyers in the […]

Ken Blackwell: Hail to the Chief Justice

By |2020-04-23T21:52:59-04:00March 12th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on The Daily Caller.com on March 12, 2010.

When the young John Roberts was confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States in 2005, he declined to put those gold stripes on his robes. They’re the ones that the late William Rehnquist had devised to indicate his status as first among equals on the nation’s high court. “I’ll have to earn them,” Roberts said modestly. He just did. He gave a powerful rejoinder this week to President Obama’s unprecedented foray into demagoguery.

It’s more than a tempest in a teapot. Last January, President Obama took […]

Ken Blackwell: If Guantánamo Closes, use ADAK!

By |2010-03-11T17:18:29-05:00March 11th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote a column appearing on BigGovernment.com on March 11, 2010.

I have to say, I did not agree with Sen. McCain during the 2008 campaign when he took the Guantánamo issue off the table by endorsing candidate Obama’s call to close it. The U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is an ideal place to hold military tribunals for jihadists captured on the battlefield. And it would still be the ideal place to hold Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year old Nigerian jihadist, who tried to blow up his inbound jet in Detroit on Christmas Day.

Claims that detainees were being […]

Ken Blackwell: If Guantánamo Closes, use ADAK!

By |2010-03-11T17:18:29-05:00March 11th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote a column appearing on BigGovernment.com on March 11, 2010.

I have to say, I did not agree with Sen. McCain during the 2008 campaign when he took the Guantánamo issue off the table by endorsing candidate Obama’s call to close it. The U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is an ideal place to hold military tribunals for jihadists captured on the battlefield. And it would still be the ideal place to hold Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year old Nigerian jihadist, who tried to blow up his inbound jet in Detroit on Christmas Day.

Claims that detainees were being […]

Ken Blackwell: Guess Who's Coming to Your House? Hidden Dangers in Obamacare

By |2020-04-23T21:54:05-04:00March 10th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on March 10, 2010.

It’s all supposed to be voluntary, those “home visits” that are tucked into the mammoth ObamaCare bill. If you have a strong stomach, and stronger bottom, you can find home visitation on pages 568-595. That’s Section 2951 of H.R. 3590, the Senate bill that Harry Reid brought down the chimney on Christmas Eve.

All voluntary, they say, but once you “volunteer” to have the oh-so-helpful folks from Social Services come in to help with your newborns, or with a number of other specified issues, will you ever be able […]

Peter Ferrara: Obamacare: Still a Threat to Your Life

By |2010-03-04T10:30:43-05:00March 4th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on The American Spectator on March 3, 2010.

The true reality of last week’s health care summit, what was really going on between the lines, was ugly and scary. I have been deeply involved in these health care debates for almost 30 years, ever since I co-authored the first paper published on Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) with John Goodman in 1981. What the health summit made clear to me is that the Democrats do not understand what the Republicans are talking about on health care. Indeed, they have no idea what the American people are talking about […]

Peter Ferrara: Stopping the Runaway Congress

By |2010-03-03T13:37:39-05:00March 3rd, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on BigGovernment.com on March 3, 2010.

The recall of New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez took a step forward yesterday with a promising oral argument in New Jersey state court. The New Jersey Constitution expressly provides for the recall of members of Congress representing the state in a provision adopted by a 75% favorable vote of the people in 1995. The New Jersey state legislature then expressly provided by statute for the procedures for such a recall.

The Committee to Recall Robert Menendez filed papers for the circulation of their petitions to begin last September. […]

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