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The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Monday struck down as unconstitutional the individual mandate in President Obama's health care takeover scheme, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The individual mandate is the provision that...

ALEXANDRIA, VA--The American Civil Rights Union today announced the addition of three distinguished conservative leaders to its Policy Board: former Court of Federal Claims Special Master Richard B. Abell, former Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, and distinguished civil...

ACRU will file amicus brief when case involving effort to recall Sen. Robert Menendez is appealed to U.S. Supreme Court. The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled 4-2 on Thursday that a provision in the state Constitution providing for recall of...

Tea Party organizers in North Dakota go to court today in their attempted recall of four-term Sen. Kent Conrad. Oral arguments were heard this morning in the North Dakota Supreme Court in the case of RecallND v. Jaegar arising out...

On August 30, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) filed an amicus brief in support of Tea Party activists arguing that North Dakota law does provide for recall of U.S. Senators. Tea Party activists had previously filed with the Secretary...

"John was a great American, a dear friend and a champion of liberty," says Susan Carleson, CEO and Chairman of the American Civil Rights Union. "He will be sorely missed." On August 20, 2010, ACRU Senior Legal Counsel John Armor...

On July 14, North Dakota joined New Jersey in an effort to recall a U.S. Senator. RecallND filed a complaint with the North Dakota Supreme Court claiming that the state's Secretary of State has unconstitutionally blocked a petition to recall...

On May 10, 2010, the American Civil Rights Union filed a brief with the New Jersey Supreme Court urging the justices to affirm a state appellate court ruling ordering the Secretary of State to recognize a recall notice for U.S....

ACRU Responds to North Dakota Secretary of State's Denial of Citizens' Effort to Recall Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) Bismarck, ND—North Dakota is one of ten states with broad language in its constitution to recall elected officials (www.recallcongressnow.org). Yet, in a...

Today (Feb. 9) the American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus brief in support of a grassroots citizens effort to petition for recall of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). The Sussex County Tea Party and NJ Tea Parties United, which filed...

Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) became an inaugural signer of the American Civil Rights Union's "Freedom to Listen" pledge on Monday, vowing to protect the First Amendment by standing against "any and all efforts to censor or in any way restrict the people's freedom to listen to the unfettered airing of political views of their choice on broadcast media or the Internet." The pledge is designed to unify support against efforts to restrict Americans' constitutional freedom to listen.

The American Civil Rights Union, which filed amicus briefs in support of Heller at every stage of the case, called today's Supreme Court decision "a long overdue return to the Constitution."

Terrorists Using 1960s Legal Precedent to Escape Punishment New Study Exposes the "Terrorist Get Out of Jail Free Card" In a report released today by the American Civil Rights Union, best-selling author and terrorism expert Richard Miniter demonstrates how a...

The Supreme Court ruled today 6-3 in favor of the Indiana Voter ID law which requires registered voters to present a valid form of identification when they go to the polls.

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The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on October 5, urging the Court to take the appeal of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision last March holding that the Second Amendment does protect an individual right of citizens to keep and bear arms. The ACRU wants the Court to take the case to affirm and thereby greatly strengthen this landmark ruling.

Today, August 1st, marks 100 years to the day since Lord Robert Baden-Powell began an eight-day campout with 22 boys on Brownsea Island off the coast of Dorset in southern England. This event is considered to be the birth of the Boy Scouts.

On April 4, the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit dismissed the lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to stop the Defense Department from allowing the Boy Scouts of America to hold their National Jamboree every four years at Fort A.P. Hill in Fredericksburg, Virginia...

The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) applauds the decision just handed down by the U.S. Circuit Court for the D.C. Circuit concerning the Second Amendment to the Constitution. This 2-1 decision struck down as unconstitutional the D.C. City Council's law which, with few exceptions, made private ownership of guns illegal in the District.

The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) applauds the emergency relief granted by the Supreme Court on Friday. 20 October 2006, reversing an injunction granted by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals against an Arizona voter ID law for the coming election. This is both a correct decision and a welcome injection of common sense in American elections.

The American Civil Rights Union joined with former California state Attorney General and now Congressman Dan Lungren to file a friend of the court brief today in the United States Supreme Court in support of the Sea Scouts in Berkeley, California. The Sea Scouts are a subdivision of the national Boy Scouts of America.

The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) filed a friend of the court (amicus curiae) brief today in the California state appeals court in San Diego urging the court to uphold the constitutionality of the Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial, which includes a 29 foot tall cross.

The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) filed a brief amicus curiae on Friday, June 16 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in support of the plaintiffs in the case of Shelly Parker et al. v. District of Columbia.