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Press Releases
ACRU Supports Hobby Lobby Against ObamaCare Contraceptive Mandate
"Individuals have Free Exercise rights with respect to their for-profit businesses."WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 28, 2014) - The Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate unconstitutionally violates the religious freedom of a Christian family that owns a chain [...]
ACRU: Obama's 'Julius Caesar Option' Usurps Legislative Power
EPA Has No Authority to Issue 'Greenhouse Gas' Rules that Congress Refused to Enact, Supreme Court Brief SaysWASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 18, 2013) -- Under President Obama, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is violating the Constitution's [...]
ACRU: Obama Made Illegal Recess Appointments to NLRB
Group's Supreme Court brief supports private company against negative ruling by a National Labor Relations Board that lacked a constitutionally legal quorum.WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 26, 2013) -- President Obama violated the Constitution by claiming to [...]
ACRU: ObamaCare Violates Freedom of Religion
Brief filed on behalf of Liberty University says the cost of defying abortion order would be "crippling."ALEXANDRIA, VA (Oct. 15, 2013) — In an amicus brief submitted on October 9, the American Civil Rights Union [...]
ACRU: Supreme Court Should Clear Way to Clean Up N.J. Slum
Township Broke No Federal Law in Redeveloping Blighted Housing Project, Group ArguesWASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 4, 2013) — In a Supreme Court brief submitted Tuesday, Sept. 3, the American Civil Rights Union argues that local officials [...]
ACRU Asks Court to Use 'Coercion Test' in Freedom to Pray Case
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Aug. 6, 2013) -- Is allowing prayer at public meetings an example of the free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment or an illegal governmental establishment of religion?To assist courts [...]
ACRU: D.C. Gun Transfer Law Violates Second Amendment by Burdening the Sale of Goods or Services
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 11, 2013)—The District of Columbia's law requiring residents who purchase out-of-state guns to go through an expensive middleman to get a transfer permit violates the Second Amendment, according to a brief filed [...]
ACRU Brief Says Popular Michigan State Initiative Ending Racial Preferences Is a Cure for Unintended, Bad Consequences
WASHINGTON D.C. (JULY 10, 2013)—In 2009, Michigan voters by 58 to 42 percent approved Proposal 2, a constitutional amendment that stopped preferential treatment of minorities at publicly funded institutions, including college admissions. Several racial preference [...]
ACRU: Supreme Court Gets It Right in Property Case
Ruling mirrors ACRU's brief that Florida officials resorted to unconstitutional coercion against land owner.WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 28) - The U.S. Supreme Court on June 25 in a 5-4 ruling smacked down Florida officials who tried [...]
ACRU Asks Supreme Court to Strike Campaign Finance Limits
Political speech should have higher protection than "pornography, nude dancing and abortion," brief says.WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 13, 2013) -- In an amicus brief filed May 8, the American Civil Rights Union argues that limits on [...]