Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) is an American civil liberties organization founded by former Reagan Administration official Robert B. Carleson in 1998. It was founded in response to views that the most prominent civil liberties organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, was too leftward leaning; ACRU has been described as a conservative civil liberties advocacy group. The ACRU has filed numerous amicus briefs in court cases involving the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), gun ownership and property rights cases, and cases involving the Boy Scouts of America including the 2000 U.S. Supreme Court case of Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, defending the Boy Scouts' freedom of association right to create their own criteria for leaders and members. Christopher Coates is the ACRU General Counsel, J. Kenneth Blackwell and Robert Knight are Senior Fellows, Jan LaRue is a Senior Legal Analyst, Mike Korbey is Managing Director, and Carleson's widow, Susan, is chairwoman.The ACRU Policy Board includes:Edwin Meese III, former U.S. Attorney GeneralWilliam Bradford Reynolds, former assistant U.S. Attorney General for Civil RightsJames Q. Wilson, (emeritus-deceased) professor, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy Curtin Winsor, former U.S. Ambassador to Costa RicaWalter E. Williams, professor of economics, George Mason University Charles J. Cooper, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Richard Bender Abell, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs J. Kenneth Blackwell, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission J. Christian Adams, author, columnist and former attorney in the Voting Section of the U.S. Justice Department Hans von Spakovsky, author, columnist and former Federal Election Commission Christopher Coates, former Voting Section chief of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights DivisionThe ACRU's main focus areas are:Election IntegrityProperty RightsFreedom of ReligionEquality Under the LawRight to Keep and Bear ArmsIndividual Liberty and Federalism↑ ↑ ↑"@en }
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- American_Civil_Rights_Union abstract "The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) is an American civil liberties organization founded by former Reagan Administration official Robert B. Carleson in 1998. It was founded in response to views that the most prominent civil liberties organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, was too leftward leaning; ACRU has been described as a conservative civil liberties advocacy group. The ACRU has filed numerous amicus briefs in court cases involving the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), gun ownership and property rights cases, and cases involving the Boy Scouts of America including the 2000 U.S. Supreme Court case of Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, defending the Boy Scouts' freedom of association right to create their own criteria for leaders and members. Christopher Coates is the ACRU General Counsel, J. Kenneth Blackwell and Robert Knight are Senior Fellows, Jan LaRue is a Senior Legal Analyst, Mike Korbey is Managing Director, and Carleson's widow, Susan, is chairwoman.The ACRU Policy Board includes:Edwin Meese III, former U.S. Attorney GeneralWilliam Bradford Reynolds, former assistant U.S. Attorney General for Civil RightsJames Q. Wilson, (emeritus-deceased) professor, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy Curtin Winsor, former U.S. Ambassador to Costa RicaWalter E. Williams, professor of economics, George Mason University Charles J. Cooper, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Richard Bender Abell, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs J. Kenneth Blackwell, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission J. Christian Adams, author, columnist and former attorney in the Voting Section of the U.S. Justice Department Hans von Spakovsky, author, columnist and former Federal Election Commission Christopher Coates, former Voting Section chief of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights DivisionThe ACRU's main focus areas are:Election IntegrityProperty RightsFreedom of ReligionEquality Under the LawRight to Keep and Bear ArmsIndividual Liberty and Federalism↑ ↑ ↑".