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Protect Your Vote! ACRU Launches Campaign to Prevent Vote Fraud

By |2012-03-22T08:04:23-04:00March 22nd, 2012|

“ProtectYourVote.us is a powerful new tool for citizens to use to ensure that fair and honest elections are held this November. All Americans have a stake in protecting our election process. Without confidence in the system, we cannot continue to be a free, self-governing nation.”

– Edwin Meese III, former U.S. Attorney General

March 22 – Smack in the middle of a furious national debate over state-passed laws that strengthen voter registration and voter ID requirements, the American Civil Rights Union is unveiling today its advocacy of specific measures to prevent vote fraud in the November elections by:

  • Requiring a photo […]

Voter ID Laws Protect the Integrity of the Ballot Box

By |2020-04-23T21:59:33-04:00March 21st, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 21, 2012 on The Huffington Post website.

Protecting the integrity of the ballot box is essential to our democracy. Laws requiring voters to show identification at the polls are commonsense measures to prevent fraud and corruption, and ensure that each year’s election returns accurately reflect the will of the people.

Yet President Obama’s administration and political allies are pursuing a dual-track approach to vilify such tools, in a crass political ploy to aid the president’s reelection.

In 2008, the Supreme Court held […]

Voter ID Insanity at DOJ Going to the United Nations

By |2012-03-13T22:18:16-04:00March 13th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 13, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.

The far left is making an unprecedented two-track move to derail states’ efforts to protect the integrity of the ballot box for this November’s elections. While the Department of Justice (DOJ) is blocking state efforts, liberal activists are taking this issue to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Attorney General Eric Holder is invoking Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). He claims it gives him the power to block Texas’s voter ID law, which […]

Voter Fraud in This Life and the Next

By |2012-02-21T10:36:45-05:00February 21st, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 20, 2012 in The Washington Times.

Did you know that according to a new Pew study, more than 1.8 million dead people are registered to vote? And that leading Democrats are fiercely opposing new laws that tighten voting requirements?

This tells us, just as we suspected, that the zombie population is becoming a major Democratic constituency.

No wonder the leading lights of the left contend – without a shred of evidence – that Republican-led legislatures are enacting photo ID laws to “suppress” the minority vote. Zombies have rights, too, […]

ObamaCare's Medicaid Provision 'Unconstitutional'

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00January 18th, 2012|

“Has Congress made an offer that the states could not refuse? That is the question that must be decided by this case.”

Jan. 17, 2012 — The American Civil Rights Union filed its sixth brief on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as ObamaCare.

The brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in States of Florida, et al v. United States Department of HHS, in support of Florida and 25 other states was authored by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara. The brief argues that the law’s Medicaid provision violates the Coercion Doctrine, which holds that the national […]

Shocker! Supreme Court Lets Stand Lower Bench's Ban on Saying 'Jesus' Too Often in Public Prayers

By |2012-01-18T15:23:46-05:00January 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 17, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Pastors and priests in five states cannot mention ‘Jesus’ more than once or twice if they pray in public at an official function after the U.S. Supreme Court stunned constitutional law experts earlier today by letting stand a lower court ruling.

‘Legislative prayer’ is what courts call the tradition of legislative bodies (Congress, state legislators, town councils, etc.) beginning their meetings with an invocation.

Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that when pastors and priests offer such prayers, it’s […]

The Che Guevara Democrat Party

By |2012-01-18T12:51:33-05:00January 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 18, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

Those who contribute to, vote for, or otherwise support today’s Democrat party need to catch up to the curve. These are not your father’s Democrats. George McGovern would be a moderate in this party.

This is the party that rejected Hillary Clinton because she was not left enough. Instead it literally took a Marxist street agitator from the Chicago political machine and put him in the White House. Barack Obama was actually teaching the social manipulation […]

Presidential Nonsense

By |2012-01-18T12:12:52-05:00January 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 18, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Last week, President Barack Obama, at a Capital Hilton fundraising event, told the crowd, “We can’t go back to this brand of you’re-on-your-own economics.” Throughout my professional career as an economist, I’ve never come across the theory of “you’re-on-your-own economics.” I’m guessing what the president means by — and finds offensive in — “you’re-on-your-own economics” is that it’s a system in which people are held responsible for their actions, that they take risks and must live with the results, that […]

ATF Wins First Round against Gun Owners in Border-State Lawsuit

By |2020-04-23T21:54:02-04:00January 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 18, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Gun owners just lost the first round in a court struggle with President Obama’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

ATF issued orders requiring all firearm dealers in the border states (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California) to report to ATF purchases of multiple semi-auto rifles, under the auspices of stopping Mexican drug cartels from paying operatives to buy guns in America and smuggle them into Mexico (because we all know the bang-up job Obama’s people have done stopping gun-running).

But the Firearm […]

Judge Says Virginia Ballot Rules Are Unconstitutional, but Rules against GOP Candidates Anyway

By |2012-01-17T13:38:33-05:00January 17th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 17, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

A federal judge declared that Virginia’s rules keeping Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum off Virginia’s March 6 presidential primary ballot “will likely be declared unconstitutional, and that the plaintiffs will ultimately prevail.”

But then he sided with Virginia, and ordered Virginia’s election to proceed with only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul on the ballot.

To make it on the primary ballot, Virginia law requires a candidate to submit 10,000 signatures of Virginia voters who attest they plan on voting in the primary, at […]

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