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Sequester Hysterics

By |2013-02-21T13:49:41-05:00February 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 20, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama told America yesterday morning that if the sequester goes through on March 1,

It will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research…. Emergency responders like the ones who are here today — their ability to help communities respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded. Border Patrol agents will see their hours reduced. FBI agents will be furloughed. Federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. Air […]

The Next Citizens United? SCOTUS Takes First Amendment Challenge to Campaign Finance Law

By |2020-04-23T21:50:21-04:00February 20th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in what could be the next Citizens United, considering whether a central part of the nation’s foundational federal campaign-finance law violates the First Amendment.

In 1971, Congress passed the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). After the national trauma of Watergate (which has nothing to do with Marco Rubio), Congress vastly expanded FECA in 1974, creating the modern campaign-finance system governing federal campaigns.

Several provisions of FECA were challenged in constitutional grounds. In Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court […]

Lars Larson: MO Gun Control Proposal Raises Constitutional Problems

By |2020-04-23T21:53:58-04:00February 17th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 16, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Missouri Democrats are trying to join New York, California, and Illinois as states that oppose gun rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. National talk-radio host Lars Larson–who is not a lawyer–understands the relevant provisions of the Constitution better than many lawyers I know.

One television personality referred to the proposed Missouri ban as going after assault weapons and guns with assault-weapon features. That’s half-right: there is no such thing as an assault weapon; it’s not a class of firearms. It’s a made-up term by anti-gun politicians to scare ordinary […]

Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit against Ten Commandments Display

By |2013-02-17T22:08:48-05:00February 17th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 15, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The Ten Commandments won in federal court this week in Dixie County, FL, which adopted a policy that allows any of its citizens to erect a display atop the county courthouse’s steps. A local Christian man paid to put a six-ton (12,000 lbs.) stone Ten Commandments display there in 2006.

The ACLU sued on behalf of an anonymous North Carolina ACLU member who said he planned to buy property in that area and had to see the display when he went to the county courthouse. […]

Obama and the Pirates

By |2013-02-15T07:18:24-05:00February 15th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 13, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

Everything in this column will be established by logical proof, as in geometry. There will be no name calling, or mere assertion.

You probably heard again last night that President Obama still thinks “the rich,” a crass term implying low class social envy, do not pay their “fair share.” He has been barnstorming America saying precisely that for his more than four years in office now. But the indisputable facts from official government sources say […]

Woman Dies in Late-Term Abortion Performed by Doctor Linked to Sebelius

By |2013-02-14T22:55:04-05:00February 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 12, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

According to reports, on Feb. 7th, 29-year old Jennifer Morbelli died due to complications from a late-term abortion performed by Dr. LeRoy Carhart, an abortion doctor celebrated by the left and embraced by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

At a press conference held on Feb. 11th in Germantown, MD, it was reported Morbelli had learned there was some abnormality with her unborn child and chose to have an abortion 33 weeks into her pregnancy. (With modern technology, a child becomes viable outside the womb around 20 weeks.)

ACRU Issues Press Release about Brief Filed in Gun Rights Case

By |2023-03-10T08:04:42-05:00February 12th, 2013|

WASHINGTON (Feb. 11, 2013) — In a brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) urges the court to hear a case involving New York citizens who say their Second Amendment right to bear arms has been abridged by a state law and a court ruling limiting gun rights to inside the home.

Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief notes that the Second Circuit Court, in upholding a district court ruling, “failed to follow the plain language of District of Columbia v. Heller (2008).” The court “limited the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms […]

ACRU Brief Says Right to Firearms Not Limited to Home

By |2023-03-10T08:04:42-05:00February 11th, 2013|

WASHINGTON (Feb. 11, 2013) — In a brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) urges the court to hear a case involving New York citizens who say their Second Amendment right to bear arms has been abridged by a state law and a court ruling limiting gun rights to inside the home.

Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief notes that the Second Circuit Court, in upholding a district court ruling, “failed to follow the plain language of District of Columbia v. Heller (2008).” The court “limited the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms to […]

No Compromise in New Contraception Mandate

By |2020-04-23T21:52:45-04:00February 11th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on February 5, 2013 on USA Today.

If you missed the Obama administration’s “clarified” version of the notorious “contraception mandate” last Friday, you can be forgiven. In fact, even if you delved into the text of the new proposal, you probably emerged more muddled than before. The “clarification” is simple recrafting of language; the law’s religious liberty problems have not been fixed. The government’s message is the same as before: provide the medical services we demand, even if it means violating your faith and beliefs, […]

Justice Sotomayor Denies Hobby Lobby Request on HHS Mandate

By |2020-04-23T21:52:46-04:00December 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on December 27, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s emergency application to be exempted from the HHS Mandate on abortion services, but that should not be considered a sign that the HHS Mandate will survive its legal challenges in the end.

The war on religious liberty continues. Despite repeated promises from President Barack Obama and his allies that they would not use Obamacare to force people to violate their religious beliefs regarding abortion, Obama handpicked an abortion-hardliner as secretary of the U.S. Department of […]

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