ACLJ Seeks Rehearing for First Amendment Protection
In an opinion that is perhaps best described as both remarkable and confounding, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently held that “the Free Speech Clause has no application in the context of speech expressed in a competitive interview.” In other words, at least in the...
ACLJ Files Federal Lawsuit Against NSA
Today, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) just filed its second lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA). We made lawful demands for government records that will shed light on the Susan Rice “unmasking” scandal that rocked the intelligence community. The NSA failed to comply...
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The Real Margaret Sanger Will Shock You
Leadership. Excellence. Outstanding contributions to reproductive health. These are the characteristics often ascribed to Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. But the real Margaret Sanger would shock and disgust all but the most radical abortion zealots. Every year the biggest...
Victory in Fight for Life in Illinois
We are pleased to report that the Northern District of Illinois issued a strong decision in favor of the fight for life in the case National Institute of Family and Life Advocates et al., v. Governor Bruce Rauner, et al . Last month , we filed an amicus brief in the Northern District of Illinois,
The Fight to Protect Life Moves to Hawaii
For years now, the abortion industry has been working hard to suppress the right of prolife crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to address life issues with their clients in the way they deem appropriate and consistent with the centers' religious principles. The pro-abortion forces have succeeded in...
Litigation Over National Security Executive Order Continues
In a further development in the ongoing litigation over President Trump’s National Security Executive Order, the United States Supreme Court today halted a Hawaii federal judge’s order allowing refugees to enter this country who lack a close relationship with an America entity. Previously, on June...
Fighting for Justice for Pakistani Girl
In Pakistan, we are fighting a now seven-months-long court battle to defend the rights of a 3-year-old girl – the daughter of a Christian woman – who was brutally sexually assaulted by a Muslim man. All too often in Pakistan, horrific crimes against innocent young girls go unpunished because the...
ISIS Spreads to Southeast Asia
ISIS is spreading, just like they promised. Six months ago we warned that “[t]he need to defeat ISIS is not a problem isolated to Iraq and Syria. It is, indeed, an international concern.” As Iraqi President Fuad Masum observed in 2014, “the whole world [is realizing] that this is not an ordinary...
Austria Recognizes “Genocide”
In a major step forward in our aggressive legal advocacy campaign for Christians facing genocide, Austria has formally recognized the genocide against Christians and is advancing at least three steps of our 7-point plan to stop the genocide against Christians and protect the victims. On June 7,
Defending Christians at the United Nations
Persecution of Christians is increasing world-wide. Today, our affiliate – the European Centre for Law & Justice (ECLJ) – gave an oral intervention before the United Nations’ Human Rights Council on behalf of persecuted Christians in Pakistan: Today the ECLJ would like to draw this Council’s...
National Security in a Complicated World
Sixteen years after the attacks of 9-11, with threats from multiple jihadist groups, the resurgence of the Russian Federation , a marked military buildup in China, an emboldened Iran, and the nuclear ambitions of North Korea—the arena of national security has never been more important and more...
Hawaii Loses to President Trump at 9th Circuit
As an update to what we explained earlier today , the State of Hawaii was rebuffed by a federal trial court yesterday in the State’s efforts to have that court clarify the United States Supreme Court’s modification of the injunctions imposed against the President’s national security Executive...
Hawaii Rebuffed in Attack on Executive Order
On June 26, 2017, the United States Supreme Court modified the injunctions imposed by federal trial judges in Hawaii and Maryland against the President’s national security Executive Order. The Supreme Court’s ruling (which agreed with many of the arguments made in our amicus brief ) was a stern...
The Escalating Threat of North Korea
It was not coincidental that on our celebration of Independence Day, July 4th, North Korea successfully fired its first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). It is a stark reminder that the world is not “independent,” or free, from the threats of war and violence that plague our planet.