This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared February 2, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

As of this moment Obamacare is officially not the law of the land. As Federal Judge Roger Vinson ruled on Monday in Florida, “[T]here is a long standing presumption that officials of the Executive Branch will adhere to the law as declared by the court. As a result, the declaratory judgment is the functional equivalent of an injunction.” That law as declared by the Federal District Court in Florida is now that Obamacare is unconstitutional.

This, of course, is the second federal court ruling that Obamacare is unconstitutional, […]

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 1, 2011 on FoxNews.com.

The federal court in the massive 26-state challenge to ObamaCare on Monday held that the health care law’s individual mandate is unconstitutional. And, even more importantly, the judge accepted the argument in my court brief that the mandate cannot be separated from the rest of this 2,700-page legislative monstrosity, and struck down the entire law.

Roger Vinson, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, the judge presiding over this case, did so because of a single word: severability.

A single […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published February 1, 2011 on The Patriot Post website.

The Obama administration thinks that George W. Bush was too arrogant, that he liked to throw his weight around in international affairs. The way to win Nobel Peace Prizes was obviously to cut a more humble figure in the world. But can bowing and kowtowing be a foreign policy for the United States?

We all remember, just weeks after his inauguration, that President Obama shocked millions of Americans with his low bow before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Mr. Obama forgot, if he […]

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 26, 2011 on Townhall.com.

It’s a positive sign of the times that constitutional expert Mike Lee of Utah was elected to the U.S. Senate. To make full use of Senator Lee’s extraordinary knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell should appoint Senator Lee to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee. And Lee may be the first of many, as there’s already a 2012 Senate candidate with credentials to match Senator Lee.

Mike Lee has credentials in constitutional law unmatched in the U.S. Senate. The son of former […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 25, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

In the state where pagan natives once threw people off cliffs to placate the gods, the Hawaiian state Senate has voted to end the practice of opening its sessions with prayer.

It’s probably just silly Internet prattle that some of the more intemperate civil liberties advocates want to follow this up by throwing pastors into Kilauea, the volcano home of the fire goddess Pele.

The Jan. 21 vote came after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) threatened to sue because of […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared January 26, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

In 1979, of course, Jimmy Carter was the incumbent President, and no sophisticated, intelligent person in Washington thought Ronald Reagan had a serious chance of beating him. The RNC was convinced Reagan would be another Goldwater, and its entire focus was to deny him the 1980 nomination. You know what happened.

In 1995, President Clinton had just suffered a shocking, historic defeat in the midterms, with the Republicans taking both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. At first, he seemed to be on the […]

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue appeared January 24, 2011 on Townhall.com.

January 22nd was the 38th anniversary of the mother of all absurd Supreme Court rulings, Roe. v. Wade. Unsurprisingly, America’s most pro-abortion President even chose to celebrate Roe in a public statement while ignoring the atrocities uncovered in a Philadelphia abortion clinic a few days earlier.

The Philadelphia clinic isn’t one of those illegal “back-alley” clinics the pro-abortion crowd howls about whenever they’re trying to defeat a reasonable regulation of abortion. No. This “squalid” hell-hole was operated by a licensed medical doctor.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 21, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

On any given day, scientists jolt us with new findings – and possibilities.

The white coats in China are busily creating chimeras, the offspring of humans mated with animals (via Petri dish) in order to develop vaccines. With cloning and genetic engineering upon us, the question of whether something should be done is fast being eclipsed by what can be done. But we must keep asking the first question as if our lives depend on it.

In 1943, in “The Abolition […]