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Sheriff Cruz Meets School Marm Feinstein

By |2020-04-23T21:53:58-04:00March 19th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published March 19, 2013 on the American Thinker website.

Here’s what Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) learned from questioning Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) about the constitutionality of her “assault weapons” ban. She’s out of estrogen and she used to have a gun.

Feinstein came armed with a scowl and a ruler when she confronted Cruz at the Constitution Corral. The outcome was so not OK for her. You can watch their exchange over S.150 during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last Thursday.

Feinstein actually objected when Cruz referred to […]

Supreme Court Hears Arizona Voter ID Case

By |2013-03-18T12:25:32-04:00March 18th, 2013|

With the fate of a crucial provision of the Voting Rights Act hanging in the balance, the Supreme Court hears another case challenging the right of a state to put in place new voting requirements Monday. At stake in the case--Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.-- is whether or not an Arizona law requiring Arizonans to show proof of citizenship at the voting booth will be upheld.

Paul Ryan's House Republican Budget vs. Patty Murray's Senate Democrat Budget

By |2013-03-18T11:57:09-04:00March 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 17, 2013 on Forbes.com.

The competing budgets released last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) definitively define the growing differences between the two parties.

The bottom line on Ryan’s Republican budget is that it restores federal taxes and spending back near the long term, stable level as a percent of GDP that prevailed for 60 years after World War II, from 1948 to 2008. Federal spending during that […]

No Room for Nuisances in Missouri Pews

By |2020-04-23T21:52:45-04:00March 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 18, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

You can’t keep a good theophobe down.

Despite losing in court, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says it will continue opposing Missouri’s voter-approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing the freedom to pray in public places.

An ACLU spokesman also likened Missouri legislators to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, but more about that below.

Designed to protect schoolchildren and public officials from nuisance lawsuits by the ACLU and other enforcers of official atheism, the amendment requires public schools to display the Bill of Rights […]

Educational Rot

By |2013-03-14T16:05:18-04:00March 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 13, 2013 on Townhall.com.

American education is in a sorry state of affairs, and there’s enough blame for all participants to have their fair share. They include students who are hostile and alien to the education process, uninterested parents, teachers and administrators who either are incompetent or have been beaten down by the system, and politicians who’ve become handmaidens for teachers unions. There’s another education issue that’s neither flattering nor comfortable to confront and talk about. That’s the low academic preparation of many teachers. […]

Yes, Ted Cruz Likely Eligible to Be President

By |2013-03-12T10:46:29-04:00March 12th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 11, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

On Mar. 8, reporter Carl Cameron on Special Report on Fox News Channel was surveying potential GOP 2016 presidential candidates. Then he raised Ted Cruz–one of the most brilliant constitutional lawyers ever to serve in the Senate–the new 41-year old Hispanic senator from Texas.

Cameron added, “But Cruz was born in Canada and is constitutionally ineligible” to run for president. While many people assume that, it’s probably not true.

Cameron was referring to the Constitution’s Article II requirement that only a “natural born citizen” […]

President Obama's War on Women and Minorities

By |2013-03-11T10:32:41-04:00March 11th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 10, 2013 on Forbes.com.

The 2012 election featured the bottom feeding charge of a Republican War on Women. The grounds for such a charge were less than zero. But with the Democrat Party outright controlling so much of the national media, every Democrat talking point takes on added weight.

Is opposition to abortion indicative of a “war on women?” That would overlook the fact that at least half of babies aborted are female. Maybe it […]

Last Chance to Repair Mr. Roberts' Obamacare Error

By |2013-03-11T10:18:57-04:00March 11th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 11, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

In 1919, back when the United States was a constitutional republic, Congress passed a child-labor law imposing a 10 percent excise tax on companies that violated it.

A North Carolina furniture maker challenged the law and won. In 1922, the Supreme Court ruled in Bailey v. Drexel Furniture that although child-labor laws have a noble purpose, the means — Congress using taxing power as a penalty — was unconstitutional.

This was before Franklin Roosevelt’s court-packing threat in 1937 ended the Supreme Court’s […]

Rand Paul and Osama bin Laden's Spokesperson

By |2013-03-11T10:08:52-04:00March 11th, 2013|

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

Supporters of national security and the Constitution are rightly outraged about learning that Sulaiman Abu Ghaith–the al Qaeda spokesman who is also Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law–appeared today in federal court in New York City. And it raises the next stage in the critical debate that started with Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster earlier this week.

Suddenly, the public learned that a senior member of al Qaeda–who furthermore is a member of bin Laden’s immediate family–is right here in the United States. He was brought before a […]

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