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Ken Klukowski: Groups Can Speak Now… If They Register

By |2020-04-23T21:52:59-04:00March 30th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on March 30, 2010.

A top federal appeals court has decided in a major campaign finance case. Whether this case goes to the Supreme Court or not, it indicates that in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United case that Americans will continue to enjoy more of their First Amendment rights, as we head into an election cycle where free speech spells big trouble for Team Obama.

On January 21, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. FEC, in which the Court held that citizens joining together in corporate associations are […]

Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Demonizing Everyday Americans

By |2020-04-23T21:52:59-04:00March 27th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on BigGovernment.com on March 26, 2010.

There appears to be a concerted effort among the political Left and many mainstream media people to demonize and marginalize the expanding citizen-based movement known as the tea party movement. This effort flows from both a fear of what these tea parties represent and a contempt for everyday Americans. But those ordinary citizens are poised to be the ones laughing when it’s all over, when democracy takes its course.

There seems to be a consensus now among the liberal elite when it […]

Ken Blackwell: The Kiss of Death

By |2010-03-25T11:57:30-04:00March 25th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on March 25, 2010.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) gave Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) a kiss on the cheek on Sunday, just before Stupak stunned pro-lifers by leading his group of previous holdouts in voting for the largest expansion of abortion-on-demand since Roe v. Wade. That’s what the just-signed ObamaCare bill means.

Stupak, of course, was the author of the Stupak Amendment that passed the House in November with 240 votes, 64 of them coming from pro-life Democrats like Stupak himself. Weiner is one of the most liberal—and most pro-abortion—members of a militantly pro-abortion […]

Robert Knight: As the Elites Celebrate, the Resistance to Obamacare Begins

By |2010-03-23T12:45:40-04:00March 23rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote a column appearing on Townhall.com on March 22, 2010.

There were undoubtedly lots of hangovers in Washington, D.C. on Monday morning, remnants of the packed saloons the night before. Washington’s socialists (read: Democrats), giddy with victory over the House voting 219-212 to pass Obama’s government takeover of health care, could barely contain themselves.

Happy footage abounded on the government mouthpiece networks the next morning (CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC). By contrast, Tea Party protesters were shown in the worst light. The Washington Post ran a front page analysis by Dana Milbank calling the crowd “unruly” and “a […]

Peter Ferrara: The Obamacare Deficit Fraud

By |2010-03-19T12:21:44-04:00March 19th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on BigGovernment.com on March 19, 2010.

President Obama has been barnstorming the country saying that CBO scores his health care takeover plan as reducing the deficit by over $100 billion in the first 10 years, and by almost a trillion dollars over the second 10 years. What is that based on?

Wading deep into documents available from CBO and the House and Senate Budget Committees reveals that the claim that Obamacare, in the form of the Senate health bill Democrats are now trying to deem through the House, would reduce the deficit is based […]

Robert Knight: National Suicide by Self Execution

By |2010-03-18T16:44:07-04:00March 18th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote a column appearing on Townhall.com on March 17, 2010.

Assisted suicide is still illegal in most of the United States. But Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama are doing their impression of the helpful Dr. Kevorkian, egging on the House to approve a “self-executing” rule that would kill the nation’s health care system by suffocating it under the big hand of government.

Aptly named the “Slaughter Rule” after House Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., the idea is for House Members to vote on a batch of “fixes” to the Senate bill—not the original bill itself—and […]

John Armor: Toyotas Aren't the Only Things Getting Recalled This Year

By |2010-03-17T12:44:45-04:00March 17th, 2010|

ACRU legal counsel John Armor wrote this column on March 17, 2010.

On Tuesday, the New Jersey Court of Appeals cleared the way for the recall of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) to proceed. New Jersey is one of nine states whose constitutions provide broad language with regard to recalling “all, every, any” elected official. This decision could severely endanger the 11 other sitting Senators (all Democrats) in those states, who are not up for re-election this year but could be subject to citizen recall efforts. (For details go to www.recallcongressnow.org.)

The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus brief in this […]

Peter Ferrara: Let the Recalls Begin

By |2010-03-17T11:42:11-04:00March 17th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on FOXNews.com on March 17, 2010.

A New Jersey state appellate court yesterday gave the green light for approval of the circulation of petitions in that state asking for a recall election to remove Democrat U.S. Senator Robert Menendez. State law in 9 states counting New Jersey specifically provides for the recall of members of Congress, just as former California Governor Gray Davis was recalled and replaced with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a recall election in 2003. Those 9 states are represented by 12 incumbent Democratic Senators who are not otherwise up for […]

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 […]

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