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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. […]

ACLU Fights for Votes for Felons

By |2010-03-02T09:20:19-05:00March 2nd, 2010|

In Mississippi the Constitution forbids felons from voting for President. The ACLU brought a challenge to that law, but the Fifth Circuit ruled that the Mississippi law was legitimate under the US Constitution. This case should be contrasted with a Ninth Circuit decision ruling that a Washington State law barring felons from voting violated the federal Voting Rights Act.

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Some of the facts for this article, but none of the legal conclusions, come from an article on the website of the Courthouse News Service on 1 March, 2010. It recounts the decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming that the […]

Ken Blackwell: Climate Change Debate Over? It's Just Begun!

By |2010-02-24T10:42:51-05:00February 24th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote a column appearing on Townhall.com on February 24, 2010.

Ronald Reagan used to say of the Soviets they liked the arms race a whole lot better when they were the only ones in it. The same could be said of Al Gore and Global Warming—oops, excuse me: Climate Change. Mr. Gore was very much happier to dash around the world in his water vapor-powered personal jet to preach the green gospel of environmentalism. He would tell us which truths were inconvenient. Any dissenters were shouted down as “deniers.” No Pope would ever make claims as far-reaching, as extravagant, as all-embracing […]

Ken Klukowski: "How Dare He Speak!"

By |2020-04-23T21:53:00-04:00February 18th, 2010|

This piece originally appeared on Townhall.com on February 17, 2010.

The ink isn’t yet dry on January’s landmark Supreme Court campaign finance decision Citizens United v. FEC, and already Round Two has begun. As new legislation is planned to limit political speech and some even call for a constitutional amendment, the courts are addressing the next round of constitutional challenges.

Last month the country’s second-highest court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, heard arguments in SpeechNow.org v. FEC. This case was already pending at the D.C. Circuit before the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Citizens’ United. Some aspects of the […]

Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Obama's Big Plans for Justice Department Nominee Johnsen

By |2010-02-10T17:35:33-05:00February 10th, 2010|

This column originally appeared on BigGovernment.com on February 8, 2010.

The Senate is about to act on the nomination of militant leftist Dawn Johnsen to be the chief of the U.S. government’s elite legal team. But that post is a stepping-stone for top judicial offices, including the Supreme Court itself. That’s likely Barack Obama’s plans for Johnsen, and it’s why she must be stopped now.

Ultra-liberal activist Dawn Johnsen, currently a professor at Indiana University School of Law, is President Obama’s nominee to be assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). As the OLC chief, Johnsen would shape […]

Ken Blackwell: The President's Confusing Messages on Religion

By |2010-02-10T13:45:35-05:00February 10th, 2010|

This piece originally appeared on The Patriot Post on February 8, 2010.

President Obama attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington this week. His own denomination—the United Church of Christ—has been teasingly described as “Unitarians considering Christ.” I don’t know how much he is considering Jesus, but he sure is quiet about it if he is. Even among Christians, the President seems to believe in a Christless Christianity.

He quoted President Kennedy’s Inaugural—always a good idea. “Civility is not a sign of weakness,” he said. But as with omitting Jesus, the President skipped the rest of the JFK quote: “…but sincerity is always subject to […]

Ken Klukowski: Legal A-Team on the Field for SCOTUS Religious Liberty Case

By |2010-02-10T13:24:45-05:00February 10th, 2010|

This column originally appeared on the Townhall website on February 10, 2010.

The first round of briefs has now been filed in the pending religious liberty case Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. This is shaping up to be a big case that everyone should focus on come April.

The case is about religious discrimination. The Christian Legal Society (CLS) requires that its campus leaders be … Christian. Seems like a no-brainer. But not to a modern liberal school like University of California at Hastings. UC denied CLS recognition because the school declared that excluding non-Christians from the leadership of this Christian organization amounted to discrimination […]

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