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ACRU: Hobby Lobby Ruling Is a 'Win for Religious Liberty'

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:50:46-04:00June 30th, 2014|

ObamaCare’s abortifacient mandate violated Religious Freedom Restoration Act, ACRU’s brief said.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 30, 2014) — In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Hobby Lobby’s constitutional right not to be forced to violate the conscience of the company’s Christian owners.

“The ObamaCare order would have imposed ruinous fines on Hobby Lobby and other companies merely because the owners refused to violate their religious beliefs by paying for abortion drugs,” said Susan A. Carleson, American Civil Rights Union Chairman. “This is a win for religious liberty.”

“Obama’s beleaguered Affordable Care Act includes a requirement that all employers offering insurance must make […]

ACRU: Court Gets It Mostly Right in NLRB Case

By ACRU Staff|2014-06-26T15:23:03-04:00June 26th, 2014|

9-0 Ruling Says President Cannot Make “Recess Appointments” When Senate Is Not in Recess.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 26, 2014) — The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to rebuke President Obama for making executive recess appointments while the Senate was not in recess is a victory for the rule of law, American Civil Rights Union Chairman Susan A. Carleson said.

“Although the Court could have gone further to keep the Executive Branch from violating the Constitution in the future, as explained in concurring opinions by four conservative justices, the 9-0 ruling is still very welcome,” Carleson said. “Presidents cannot flout the law simply because they think […]

#Truth Campaign Exposes the Truth About Jim Crow

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:59:45-04:00June 23rd, 2014|

Report reveals history and misuse of a shameful time in America’s history.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 19, 2014) — A new report by the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) clearly explains the sordid reality of the Jim Crow era and how liberals have distorted its history for their own purposes.
The Truth about Jim Crow is being distributed on Capitol Hill today by the Black Conservatives Fund, which is making the report the centerpiece of its #Truth campaign to raise public awareness about how the factual history of racism and slavery in America have been distorted.
“The #Truth campaign will lay bare who was really responsible for the immoral Jim Crow […]

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 […]

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 […]

ACRU: Leave Clergy Housing Allowance Alone

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:38-04:00April 14th, 2014|

Freedom from Religion Foundation is “trying to use the federal courts to destroy religious freedom and independence from government control,” said American Civil Rights Union Chairman Susan A. Carleson.

Washington, D.C. (April 14, 2014) — An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rule allowing clergy to have a tax-exempt housing allowance is a reasonable accommodation of religion, not an unconstitutional establishment of religion, the ACRU argued in a federal court brief filed on April 9.

The brief, filed by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Kenneth A. Klukowski on behalf of the Liberty Institute, asks the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a ruling by Senior U.S. […]

ACRU Applauds Ruling on Citizenship for Voting

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:59:45-04:00March 21st, 2014|

“It’s refreshing when a federal judge cites the Constitution as it was written, not in a way that distorts it to create an opposite meaning,” says ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 21, 2014) — In a victory for election integrity, a federal judge has ruled that Arizona and Kansas can require people registering to vote to prove their U.S. citizenship, and the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) cannot block them.

The two states had asked the EAC to include the citizenship proof requirement on federal registration forms in those states to make them consistent. The EAC declined to approve the request and […]

ACRU Supports Hobby Lobby Against ObamaCare Contraceptive Mandate

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:39-04:00January 28th, 2014|

“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 of craft stores and a chain of Christian bookstores, the American Civil Rights Union argues in a brief submitted today to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., Mardel Stores Inc., David Green, et al. notes that the Green family’s refusal to offer insurance coverage of abortifacients to […]