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Filed in: US Constitution | by Matthew Clark | 6:04 PM Oct. 16, 2012
Supreme Court Halts Military Voting Rights Law this Election But Case Continues
The Supreme Court has refused to allow a military voting rights law to go into effect ahead of this year’s elections. The Court refused to grant an emergency stay to an appeals court ruling that prevented a series of legislative changes that would have given military personnel three extra days to vote early, in-person before Election day. This provides a temporary victory for the Obama campaign, which sued to prevent these Ohio laws from going into effect, but leaves broader questions reg... Continue Reading
Filed in: US Constitution | by Matthew Clark | 10:23 AM Oct. 11, 2012
Military Voting Rights Case to be Appealed to the Supreme Court
Ohio’s Attorney General has decided to appeal a federal appeals court decision on a military voting rights law to the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision by the lower court could have far-reaching and disastrous affects on the voting rights of the men and women our armed forces. On Friday, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court ruling that halted the implementation of a series of early voting laws in Ohio that would have provided members of the military three extra days to ... Continue Reading
Filed in: US Constitution | by Jay Sekulow | 3:15 PM Sep. 17, 2012
ACLJ to Appeals Court: Protect Voting Rights for U.S. Military in Ohio Case
We filed an amicus brief today with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit urging a three-judge panel to overturn a lower court decision which prohibits the State of Ohio from providing members of the U.S. Armed Forces a small amount of additional time to vote. As you may recall, The Obama campaign filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state-enacted measure giving members of the military three extra days to vote early before Election Day. A federal district court agreed with the Obama ... Continue Reading
Filed in: US Constitution | by Matthew Clark | 4:19 PM Aug. 8, 2012
Obama Lawsuit Could have Disastrous Effects on Military Voting Rights
Why are 15, non-partisan, veterans groups opposing President Obama’s lawsuit against an Ohio law that allows military personnel three extra days to vote before Election Day? The President’s campaign claims he is merely trying to extend voting rights. The reason these military groups - representing hundreds of thousands of veterans - oppose the President is because his claim is just plain false. Despite what the Obama re-election campaign says in press releases about wanting everyone... Continue Reading
Filed in: 10 Commandments | by Geoffrey Surtees | 10:46 AM Sep. 22, 2011
“I Came, I Saw, I was Offended” - It’s Time to Finish Offended Observer Standing
Does the ACLU have the right to sue a judge over his display of the Ten Commandments simply because one of its members finds the display offensive? Does a federal court have the constitutional authority to order the removal of the Ten Commandments merely because an ACLU member finds their public display demeaning? These questions raise the issue of what’s called “offended observer” standing — an issue at stake in our pending Supreme Court petition in ACLU v. DeWeese. Und... Continue Reading
Filed in: 10 Commandments | by Jay Sekulow | 11:22 AM Aug. 2, 2011
ACLU Has No Legal Standing in 10 Commandments Case, High Court Should Hear Case
I want to bring you an update on our efforts to get the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving the display of the Ten Commandments, a case I told you about in June. We filed our Petition for Writ of Certiorari at the high Court a couple of months ago. Now, we have filed a reply brief arguing that the ACLU has no legal standing to bring a challenge against an Ohio courtroom display containing the Ten Commandments. An appeals court declared unconstitutional a poster displayed by Judge James... Continue Reading
Filed in: 10 Commandments | by Jay Sekulow | 12:00 AM Jun. 14, 2011
Supreme Court Should Take 10 Commandments Case
It's a legal challenge that's been underway for years. And, now, we're asking the Supreme Court of the United States to get involved. We filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari at the Supreme Court urging the high court to take an Ohio case and overturn a federal appeals court decision that declared a poster that included that Ten Commandments as part of an exhibit on legal philosophy by a State Judge unconstitutional. We are urging the Justices to hear the case and overturn a February 2011 d... Continue Reading
Filed in: Equal Access | by Jay Sekulow | 11:00 PM Feb. 7, 2011
Equal Access Win in Ohio
While the law is perfectly clear that public schools must treat Christian after-school clubs in the same way they treat other after-school clubs, some schools still need to learn this lesson. We represent Children's Outreach Ministries, an organization which runs Kids Club meetings in Toledo, Ohio and the surrounding area. Kids Clubs are Bible-centered clubs which meet after school for one hour per week throughout the school year. At Kids Club meetings, children hear a Bible lesson, learn a memory verse, sing songs, and are given the opportunity to receive Jesus Christ as Savior. Recently, Children's Outreach Ministries was informed by a local school district that they had to pay an hourly rental fee for use of a school classroom. The problem with this fee arrangement was that other after-school groups did not have to pay the same rental fee. After writing a letter to the school district setting forth the law regarding equal access and requesting that Children's Outreach Ministri... Continue Reading
Filed in: 10 Commandments | by Jay Sekulow | 11:00 PM Feb. 2, 2011
Appeal Ahead in Ohio Judge Case
It's a case we've been involved with for years. And, after more than a year, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit issued a decision yesterday in the case of Judge James DeWeese. Judge DeWeese is the Ohio Court of Common Pleas judge whom we have been defending against the ACLU of Ohio for nearly a decade. The latest case involved a constitutional challenge to the judge's display in his courtroom of a poster called "Philosophies of Law in Conflict." The poster con... Continue Reading