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Coming End to Racial Preferences

By ACRU Staff|2014-05-07T11:58:03-04:00May 7th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 7, 2014 on Townhall.com.

Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court 6-2 ruling in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action et al. upheld Michigan’s constitutional amendment that bans racial preferences in admission to its public universities. Justice Sonia Sotomayor lashed out at her colleagues in a bitter dissent, calling them “out of touch with reality.” She went on to make the incredible argument that the amendment, which explicitly forbids racial discrimination, itself amounts to racial discrimination. Her argument was that permissible “race-sensitive admissions policies,” the new name for racial […]

ACRU Applauds Supreme Court Decision Upholding Public Prayer

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:38-04:00May 5th, 2014|

“The Court’s ruling reflects elements of the Coercion Test that we have long championed,” said ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 5, 2014) — The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, upheld the right of local officials to begin meetings with public prayer.

In a brief filed on Aug. 2, 2013 in Town of Greece v. Susan Galloway and Linda Stevens, ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara defended the upstate New York town’s practice of allowing rotating, voluntary prayers before council meetings and explained the Coercion Test:

“At the time the First Amendment […]

Ken Tomlinson, Patriot and Voice for Truth

By ACRU Staff|2014-05-05T11:33:50-04:00May 5th, 2014|

The American Civil Rights Union mourns the loss of a founding Policy Board member, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, who died on May 2 at age 69 after a brief illness.

“Ken was one of the few people in major media who believed strongly that the power of the press lay in actually telling the truth,” said Susan A. Carleson, ACRU’s Chairman. “He was fiercely contrary to fashionable liberal nostrums, and was always a principled gentleman. Ken was not only a great journalist but he was an American patriot and a dear friend. We shall never forget his role during the early days of the ACRU, founded by […]

ACLU's Vote-Fraud Campaign

By ACRU Staff|2014-05-01T13:55:16-04:00May 1st, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 30, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

The American Civil Liberties Union is at it again, throwing a log in front of the accelerating — and widely supported — campaign against vote fraud.

This time, the liberal group is asking for an injunction to block Arkansas from enforcing its new voter photo-ID law while the court considers the ACLU’s lawsuit, which claims that the statute violates the Arkansas Constitution by suppressing minority voting.

As usual, the ACLU has managed to dig up several plaintiffs who claim harm for having […]

The Constitution or Good Ideas?

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:57:05-04:00April 30th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 30, 2014 on Townhall.com.

Let me run through a few good ideas. I think it’s a good idea for children to eat healthful, wholesome foods. In the raising of our daughter, before-dinner treats were fresh vegetables, and after-dinner treats were mostly fruits.

I arrive at my gym sometime between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., at least four times a week, to lift weights and use the treadmill. During the warmer months, the treadmill is substituted by a weekly total of 40 to 60 miles on my bike. […]

Senator Cruz's Energy Bill Promotes Energy Liberation, Job Creation, and Prosperity for America

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-25T12:52:16-04:00April 25th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on April 24, 2014 on Forbes.com.

On March 27, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the American Energy Renaissance Act, providing for comprehensive liberation of energy producers to maximize energy production, job creation and prosperity for America. A companion bill was introduced in the House by Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK).

Despite the war-like hostility of the Obama Administration to the traditional carbon based energy that fueled the industrial revolution, the entrepreneurship and modern technology of America’s private economy is producing a boom in oil and gas production that is overwhelming President Obama. America has already surged […]

ACRU: Court Upholds Michigan Voters' Right to End Race Quotas

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-23T13:43:59-04:00April 23rd, 2014|

WASHINGTON D.C. (APRIL 23, 2014) — The American Civil Rights Union, which filed a brief in the case, hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-2 ruling on Tuesday upholding a Michigan constitutional amendment approved by voters that stops preferential treatment of minorities at publicly funded institutions, including colleges.

The measure, Proposal 2, was approved by a 58 to 42 percent vote in 2009.

On July 1, 2013, the ACRU submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara in Bill Schuette, Attorney General of Michigan v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. The brief argues that the amendment is constitutional even […]

ACRU: White House Rewriting of ObamaCare Violates Constitutional Separation of Powers

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-22T15:40:21-04:00April 22nd, 2014|

“Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that Congress gives up its designated legislative authority whenever a president decides to legislate on his own.” — American Civil Rights Union Chairman Susan A. Carleson

Washington, D.C. (April 22, 2014) — In an amicus brief filed in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, the ACRU has joined Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and two organizations in support of a lawsuit filed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) that challenges a rule issued by the Obama Administration allowing federal health insurance subsidies for lawmakers and some congressional staff members.

The brief, written by attorney Joel C. Mandelman, notes that the Affordable […]

Nevada Pushes Back against the Federal Leviathan

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-21T11:17:31-04:00April 21st, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 18, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

Anyone worried about the rapidly growing power of the federal government under President Obama and the militarization of federal law enforcers had to take heart last week.

It was quite a sight when hundreds of citizens, many of them on horseback, converged near the Mesquite, Nev., ranch of Cliven Bundy in reaction to the federal government’s massive show of force against the cattleman.

At issue is Mr. Bundy’s refusal since 1993 to pay for federal permits to graze his cattle on land, some of it designated […]

Who's Not Wild about Harry?

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-21T10:39:09-04:00April 21st, 2014|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing April 19, 2014 on The American Thinker website.

Muzzling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for calling Americans “domestic terrorists” is the last thing Republicans fighting for control of the Senate in November should want.

Reid railed at the Americans standing with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy after about 200 heavily-armed federal agents arrived to seize his cattle for nonpayment of grazing fees on federal land.

An American-owned herd of cattle eating grass and fertilizing public land is treated as a threat to national security. Yet, trespassing foreigners, from who knows […]