Ken Klukowski is a national-bestselling author, constitutional lawyer and media contributor. He is on faculty at Liberty University School of Law, and a fellow and senior legal analyst with the American Civil Rights Union. He has also been published by Politico, the New York Post, and the Wall Street Journal, among other outlets. Klukowski has authored briefs on constitutional issues across the country, including the one adopted by the U.S. district court in striking down Obamacare in its entirety. He has authored seven law review articles, and been cited by multiple federal and state courts. A frequent media guest, he has appeared on national television and radio shows. A national bestselling author, his most recent book is Resurgent: How Constitutional Conservatism Can Save America, published by Simon & Schuster. A native of Indiana, he received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame, studied history and political science at Arizona State University, and earned his law degree from George Mason University where he was a journal editor. He currently lives in the Virginia suburbs of D.C.
The U.S. Senate rejected a motion to proceed to a final vote on the nomination of Caitlin Halligan to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
6 Mar 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder has officially informed Sen. Rand Paul that under extraordinary circumstances President Barack Obama has the power to kill U.S. citizens with drone strikes on American soil. Believe it or not, Holder is right, and Paul is wrong.
6 Mar 2013
A historic Supreme Court decision is imminent, one that could fundamentally reshape the balance of power between federal and state governments as it has existed from almost half a century. The justice are very likely going to strike down one of the two major provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
28 Feb 2013
This is not the first time Kagan aligned herself with Breyer—a moderate-liberal—to the right of Ginsburg and Sotomayor. Kagan and Breyer joined Chief Justice John Roberts and the conservative wing of the Court in striking down Obamacare’s provision authorizing HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to strip all Medicaid money from any state refusing to go along with Obamacare’s massive and unsustainable expansion of that entitlement as an unconstitutional coercion of the states.
23 Feb 2013
On Feb. 19, the Supreme Court reinstated a case involving an international fight over a child between an American serviceman and his ex-wife.
20 Feb 2013
...the Court held that FECA’s restrictions on how much a campaign could spend violated the First Amendment because it limited how much a candidate could speak to voters, but restrictions on campaign contributions were okay so long as they were not too restrictive—whatever that’s supposed to mean. It was one of a series of Supreme Court decisions from the mid and late-1970s that was philosophically incoherent, and left no one satisfied.
19 Feb 2013
Missouri Democrats are trying to join New York, California, and Illinois as states that oppose gun rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. National talk-radio host Lars Larson—who is not a lawyer—understands the relevant provisions of the Constitution better than many lawyers I know.
16 Feb 2013
The Ten Commandments won in federal court this week in Dixie County, FL, which adopted a policy that allows any of its citizens to erect a display atop the county courthouse’s steps. A local Christian man paid to put a six-ton (12,000 lbs.) stone Ten Commandments display there in 2006.
15 Feb 2013
According to reports, on Feb. 7th, 29-year old Jennifer Morbelli died due to complications from a late-term abortion performed by Dr. LeRoy Carhart, an abortion doctor celebrated by the left and embraced by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
12 Feb 2013
How many stories have you seen on the broadcast networks or cable networks—any of the networks—about the first-ever domestic terrorism conviction in our nation’s capital? Is same-sex marriage such a politically correct issue that no one wants to inform the public when a gay-rights political activist shoots someone in an attempted mass-murder?
11 Feb 2013