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Jan LaRue: Pornography Advocate at DOJ?

By |2020-04-23T21:53:04-04:00February 9th, 2009|

This column originally appeared on Townhall.com on February 9, 2009.

It’s been a taxing two weeks for President Obama and his nominees. And there’s another nominee with bigger disqualifiers than unpaid taxes.

Imagine. A veteran pornography defense attorney takes a top spot at the agency charged with enforcing the nation’s child pornography and obscenity laws.

And that’s what will happen if David G. Ogden is confirmed as Deputy Attorney General, the second in command at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the nation’s top law enforcement agency.

Who’s next?

Jack Kevorkian as Surgeon General?

Jane Fonda as Deputy Secretary of […]

Ken Blackwell: Obama, Ginsburg and Guns

By |2020-04-23T21:53:48-04:00February 9th, 2009|

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being treated for pancreatic cancer. While Americans pray for her recovery, this sad news is a sobering reminder that President Obama is likely to appoint several justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. And in the aftermath of last year's landmark decision on the Second Amendment, gun owners need to zero in on what these events mean for the future of the right to bear arms.

Horace Cooper: Bush v. Gore Redux?

By |2009-01-28T16:54:32-05:00January 28th, 2009|

This column originally appeared in the Washington Times on January 28, 2009.

Sen. Norm Coleman’s campaign is charging that cheating has occurred in Minnesota, where Al Franken has mysteriously pulled ahead in a recount of the U.S. Senate race.

The Coleman campaign’s lawsuit, filed on January 6, uses strikingly similar arguments to those successfully raised by the Bush campaign against Al Gore in November 2000.

The suit says that “irregularities, mistakes, and violations of law” by the state canvassing board resulted in Franken being certified erroneously as the election winner. Vote counting irregularity was a key issue in the landmark Bush v. […]

Peter Ferrara: The Constitutional Right to Listen

By |2020-04-23T21:50:28-04:00January 28th, 2009|

We usually think of freedom of speech as involving the right of speakers to speak, whether through public addresses, in writing, or over radio and television airwaves. But the courts have recognized an additional dimension to First Amendment free speech rights: the right to listen and watch. This right takes center stage in a current challenge to the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law and could play a role in the debate about the Fairness Doctrine.

Peter Ferrara On the Air in Worcester, MA

By |2009-01-26T09:58:45-05:00January 26th, 2009|

On Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 2:10pm ET, Peter Ferrara will be on “Engaging Your World” on 760 WVNE AM out of Worcester, MA. He will be discussing the freedom to listen. Tune in if you are in Worcester or you can listen live online,

Peter Ferrara on The Jon Justice Show

By |2009-01-25T22:33:21-05:00January 25th, 2009|

On Monday, January 26, 2009 at 8:00am ET, Peter Ferrara will be on the “The Jon Justice Show” on 104.1 KQTH FM out of Tuscon, AZ. He will be talking about the freedom to listen. Tune in if you live in the Tuscon area or you can listen live online.

Hans Zeiger: So Help Me God

By |2009-01-21T10:26:10-05:00January 21st, 2009|

Michael Newdow, the professional atheist who tried to have "one nation under God" stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance, has lost his crusade to prevent the mention of God at the inauguration. Though it's not written into the Constitution, presidents usually close their oath with the words "So help me God." Newdow wanted a court to tell President-elect Obama that he cannot say those words, and he also wanted to ban the tradition of inaugural prayers. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton threw out Mr. Newdow's attempt to establish his religion -- the religion of atheism.

Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission

By |2009-01-16T00:07:27-05:00January 16th, 2009|

On January 14, 2009, the American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus curiae brief with the United States Supreme Court in favor of Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, arguing that prohibiting broadcast of the movie “Hillary: The Movie” violated the fundamental right of freedom of speech, not only for Citizens United and the individuals who contributed to produce the movie to advance their ideological viewpoint, but also for the viewers who would choose to watch the movie. The ACRU brief argues that these viewers “hold their own constitutionally protected, freedom of speech rights to watch and to listen to the movie and its speech.”

John Armor On the Air to Discuss Burris Appointment

By |2009-01-06T15:51:57-05:00January 6th, 2009|

ACRU Counsel John Armor will be on the air Tuesday, January 6, 2009 and Wednesday, January 7 to discuss the appointment of Roland Burris to the Senate seat vacated by President-Elect Barack Obama.

On January 6, John will be on The Don Kroah Show at 5:15pm ET on 101.5 FM WAVA out of Washington, DC. You can listen live online.

Then at 6:30pm ET on January 6, John will be interviewed on 770AM KTTH out of Seattle. You can listen to his interview live online.

On January 7 at 10:00am ET, John will be on The G. Gordon Liddy Show. […]

Horace Cooper: ACLU and 9th Circuit against Christianity

By |2020-04-23T21:53:04-04:00December 29th, 2008|

This op-ed originally appeared in the Washington Times on December 29, 2008.

It is fitting that during this season we take time to acknowledge our nation’s religious heritage. In the Mayflower Compact – the agreement made by the earliest American settlers – the preamble explains that their mission included the “propagating of Christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God.”

Even Christopher Columbus is recorded as acknowledging that his ambitious plan to discover new worlds was in part a religious endeavor. “It is hoped that by God’s assistance, some of the […]

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