Kenneth A. "Ken" Klukowski is a national-bestselling author and a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer, consultant, and journalist, specializing in the Constitution. He is special counsel at the Family Research Council, where he serves as director of the Center for Religious Liberty, a fellow and senior analyst with the American Civil Rights Union, and a research fellow with Liberty University School of Law. He is the U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for Townhall.com and is a contributor to BigGovernment.com and Fox Forum, the opinion page for Fox News. Klukowski has written briefs on constitutional issues in federal courts across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court. A lecturer at law schools across America, his scholarly writings have been published by respected legal journals from law schools such as Georgetown and Yale. As an attorney he has written briefs in constitutional cases to the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appeals courts. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:01:00 GMT Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ A major law firm has caved to pressure from militant homosexual activists, and one of America's top Supreme Court lawyers resigned from that firm rather than abandon principle. That lawyer is former U.S. Solicitor... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2011/04/26/profile_in_courage_defending_marriage_paul_clement 1c5b077c-c5c6-4402-a740-0ddd3724a235 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:01:00 GMT Editors' note: this column was co-authored by Ken Blackwell. On Mar. 31, Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee introduced a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) to make it a constitutional requirement for Washington, D.C.,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2011/04/01/balanced_budget_amendment_vital_to_americas_future 9f6a0692-169a-44f1-9c93-e08e279a2abb Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:01:00 GMT [Editor's Note: This column was coauthored by Ken Blackwell, a Townhall contributing editor and a senior fellow at the Family Research Council.] The child porn allegations made against MTV for its "Skins" show must... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2011/01/25/will_obama's_justice_department_probe_child_porn_at_mtv 1f85b826-9631-42a6-b156-57b9d303a96a Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT [Editor's Note: This column was coauthored by Ken Blackwell, a Townhall contributing editor and a senior fellow at the Family Research Council.] The child porn allegations made against MTV for its "Skins" show must be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2011/01/25/will_obamas_justice_department_probe_child_porn_at_mtv 57220b82-7f0d-442f-b1ce-c93647d5a125 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT The Second Amendment is a whole new ballgame in the aftermath of recent Supreme Court decisions. The NRA is taking a leading role in many lawsuits now underway by bringing in top-tier lawyers from the Reagan... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2011/01/08/nra_and_reagan_conservatives_defending_second_amendment_in_court 6123197a-533c-44e1-974d-2452afc6dd45 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT On Dec. 30, a federal appeals court froze new EPA regulations on greenhouse gases. The team representing the State of Texas in this appeal is also the team managing the largest Obamacare lawsuit in America, led by a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2011/01/07/conservative_legal_team_from_obamacare_case_now_fighting_the_epa 108766f0-c3bc-4448-a99a-a05bb22d5752 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT It's worth noting not only that the War on Christmas has continued, but now federal regulators have joined the wrong side. Christians should get far more aggressive in fighting back, because the Constitution is on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/12/27/federal_regulators_wage_war_on_christmas 68368964-3dbe-4da2-a750-b43b1d72e8e4 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:01:00 GMT While America was talking about the election returns, the Supreme Court was talking about tax credits to fund Christian schools in Arizona. It looks like this might be yet another 5-4 decision on religious liberty, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/11/10/supreme_court_weighs_arizona_tax_credit_for_christian_schools 7155018f-dcb8-48ec-93d1-e47fdef63de3 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:01:00 GMT Many newer video games depict graphic violence, such as torturing and defiling women and children. These games are sold to kids. The Supreme Court is considering whether the First Amendment forbids states from... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/11/03/does_first_amendment_require_selling_violent_video_games_to_children bd7c73f0-cdc3-4cc9-a4be-b68e876fca3b Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:50:00 GMT On October 6, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether the First Amendment protects a radical religious group protesting the funeral of a fallen U.S. Marine, saying that God strikes down our troops in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/10/07/marine_funeral_protestors_claim_first_amendment_protection 5d193c47-22f2-4ca5-bf0c-6c8bd3bd631c Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:01:17 GMT Editor's Note: This piece was co-authored by Ken Blackwell. A situation involving voter intimidation caught on tape has now exploded, as a Justice Department lawyer resigns to be able to tell the truth to the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/07/13/doj_official_responsible_for_black_panther_outrage 8e24f237-fe56-4496-ad20-51477e173c4c Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:01:00 GMT On June 28, the Supreme Court handed down a deeply-disturbing decision in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez that sets back religious freedom in this country. This case was nothing more than the Court expressing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/06/30/shocking_setback_for_religious_freedom_in_supreme_court 67a3374c-d0c6-4a85-8353-1f9ca76037c3 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:09:38 GMT On June 28, the Supreme Court handed down the most consequential decision of this term in the historic gun-rights case, McDonald v. Chicago. Now the Second Amendment right to own a gun extends against every level of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/06/29/the_gun_rights_decision_in_mcdonald_v_chicago 5195a95e-8270-46a8-aa14-28bd5ede9490 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:58:57 GMT On June 24, the Supreme Court sent back for a new hearings one of the Enron villains, Jeffrey Skilling, and two other unrelated defendants. The Court did this in part by severely curtailing the scope of the federal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/06/28/court_gets_federal_honest-services_law_half-right 860ad7eb-a91d-4bf4-b007-7f460e832fc1 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:01:00 GMT Today the Supreme Court dealt a setback to supporters of traditional marriage. But it's not the defeat that gay-rights supporters (and many of their fans on the media) are hailing it as, and leaves open the possibility... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/06/25/marriage_petition_case_was_not_a_defeat_for_traditional_marriage 8e67bcf5-898b-410c-bdd1-f731a576a515 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:01:00 GMT Monday's Supreme Court case on supporting terrorism saw retiring Justice Stevens side with the conservatives, while Justice Sotomayor went the opposite way. This suggests that Elena Kagan could move the Court to the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/06/23/terrorist_support_case_hints_kagan_may_move_to_the_left dfc7b717-1b46-4cf6-b824-0f041d9e9812 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:01:00 GMT The legal world has been focused on a constitutional property-rights case before the Supreme Court. Last week the Court handed down its decision, and disappointed those waiting for this decision by deferring the big... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/06/21/supreme_court_ducks_question_on_taking_property 97b390da-7476-4311-bf03-9dcf1808a665 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:01:00 GMT While Tuesday is a major primary-election day across the country, once Wednesday dawns the nation's eyes will start turning to the Supreme Court as the next major story in America's capital. A number of big cases are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/06/08/all_eyes_shifting_to_supreme_court 9aabbf26-54fa-4b36-bbd3-892cc23232ea Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:46:22 GMT Monday's Supreme Court decision holding that sentencing an underage person to life in prison is unconstitutional is yet another disturbing example of judicial activism. More than simply another run-of-the-mill... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/05/19/supreme_court_continues_to_impose_morality_on_states 00a6f423-f9f0-43b1-b4ef-5776c296ab0e Wed, 19 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT In a disappointing move, the Supreme Court has upheld a federal law that allows the feds to keep locked away criminals deemed "sexually dangerous" after those convicts' prison term is over. This case saw Chief Justice... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/05/18/scotus_upholds_power_to_forever_lock_up_dangerous_people 3947ecea-70f5-4838-a8c7-d33aa2dfe6e1 Tue, 18 May 2010 05:08:50 GMT President Obama's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan reveals the kind of Supreme Court that the president wants for America. It's one that will fulfill his far-left agenda. Elena Kagan is an interesting pick... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/05/10/what_kagan_nomination_tells_us_about_obama d1d05917-5686-44ae-9d8b-c700a500393d Mon, 10 May 2010 15:49:35 GMT In a very narrow ruling, the World War I memorial shaped like a Latin cross will continue to stand in the Mojave desert. But this was not the victory that conservatives hoped for, and serves as a reminder that the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/05/03/supreme_court_victory_narrowly_saves_cross_from_destruction f35f4bbc-4892-470a-8bfb-a1da89549886 Mon, 03 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT Justice Stevens' retirement from the Supreme Court creates a potential game-changer for the midterm elections. If Republicans respond correctly to this, they can recapture the House, make big gains in the Senate, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/04/09/the_gop_must_take_charge_on_stevens_replacement ba2a27a2-e2af-43a0-87b7-5d5be6a43b7f Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:14:25 GMT A top federal appeals courts has decided in a major campaign finance case. Whether this case goes to the Supreme Court or not, it indicates that in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's Citizens United case that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/03/30/groups_can_speak_now._if_they_register 0d5961b5-2f96-49a5-892d-450ed1ad1e61 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:01:00 GMT On March 2, the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the Second Amendment applies to states, or instead is only a right against the federal government. Although it looks like America's gun owners are going to win... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/03/03/supreme_court_debates_whether_states_can_ban_guns becbe596-36ea-4a74-aa4c-d06f58f03d2e Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:01:00 GMT Can the government forbid you from talking with terrorists? The Supreme Court heard arguments in an antiterrorism case presenting this First Amendment issue. The War on Terror just met the Bill of Rights, and now the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/02/24/does_the_first_amendment_protect_talking_with_terrorists 987232ea-54f9-4674-93dd-4984c7f2a51c Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT The ink isn't yet dry on January's landmark Supreme Court campaign finance decision Citizens United v. FEC, and already Round Two has begun. As new legislation is planned to limit political speech and some even call for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/02/17/how_dare_he_speak! 3b2f2c9e-8b46-427f-b299-908313bca0b0 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT There is growing tension between the pro-gun parties to the upcoming Supreme Court gun-rights case. Perhaps concerned about the direction this case was going, the Court has taken the unusual step of granting the NRA's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/01/25/mcdonald_gun-rights_case_round_one_goes_to_the_nra b77e6815-4635-4571-a006-2d583a5a62f5 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:17:10 GMT On January 12, the Supreme Court heard a case involving a federal law that empowers the federal government to keep dangerous people locked up after their prison sentences are over. Enough justices seemed skeptical,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2010/01/14/does_the_constitution_allow_the_feds_to_lock_up_dangerous_people 40c404b7-b37f-48e4-84b6-25ea53adf489 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:11:53 GMT In 2005, the National Rifle Association of America enacted a law that probably saved the American gun-making industry from bankruptcy. And just this last week, the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to th http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/12/18/high_court_rejects_challenge_to_nra's_signature_law ee6aa5b8-7961-40d4-bd67-a853dfd4c13a Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:10:18 GMT What if there was a federal law stating that anytime you owe anyone a duty to be honest and you violate that duty, you're committing a federal felony? Guess what-there already is. And now the Supreme Court is deciding... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/12/11/high_court_considers_whether_feds_can_make_everyone_a_criminal 84133ede-8e62-4b2b-b7b1-07718d745a81 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case over an executive-branch agency that is completely outside presidential control. Team Obama argued that the Court should keep it that way, leaving in place an agency that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/12/08/obama_seeks_to_evade_accountability_in_supreme_court ae297b5d-0d46-4867-ab44-6fc2f0b253eb Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:59:03 GMT If government action takes your property, the Constitution says government must give you fair market value for it. But what if a court takes your property? That's what the Supreme Court is going to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/12/02/justices_debate_whether_courts_can_take_property aa94dbd8-606f-405e-a1d8-18d783ef34fa Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:53:54 GMT On Nov. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases on whether it violates the Eighth Amendment for a minor (under age 18) to be sentenced to life in prison without parole where there's no homicide involved.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/11/10/court_should_uphold_life_without_parole_for_minors bb0da0c4-e33f-4b7f-bcee-54115db87a3c Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:20:00 GMT In recent months, at least three major newspapers have carried columns attempting to push Chief Justice John Roberts into voting to uphold a grossly unconstitutional federal law. But their cheap distortions and Chicken http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/11/06/defending_chief_justice_roberts c08dd45f-9ae2-4a17-9da6-d3c98fb15b44 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:35:58 GMT The Supreme Court joined in a fight between the ACLU and the federal government over a World War I memorial in the shape of a cross. While neither legal team hit the ball over the fence, the majority seems inclined to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/10/08/aclu_pushes_high_court_to_destroy_cross_memorial 4f7c10fd-0875-480e-b89b-79c240ba725b Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:01:57 GMT September 9, 2009 was a historic day at the U.S. Supreme Court. Meeting in special session, the Court considered a legal challenge pitting Barack Obama's top Supreme Court lawyer against a living legend in a major First... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/09/15/justices_tackle_mccain-feingold_while_sotomayor_throws_a_curve f59d5359-74eb-4873-ae41-02c4fde2357d Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:03:05 GMT If Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s prosecutor knocks on Dick Cheney's door asking about CIA interrogations, Mr. Cheney should refuse to say a single word. If the Holder Justice Department tries to drag the former... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/09/08/invoking_executive_privilege ef234008-73c2-4c7f-90bc-15afe0c6808a Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:11:17 GMT Most people have now heard that President Obama is going to address America's school children on September 8. He'll be speaking to them directly, without their parents there to serve as a filter. Taken with an... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/09/05/controlling_childrens_minds 8108938f-eded-4f90-bd3e-2a1509066b4b Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Three Florida school employees will go to federal court on September 17 to see if they'll be thrown behind bars. The reason? Prayer. Their school made a deal with the ACLU to stop praying and this ridiculous situation... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/08/18/never_make_a_deal_with_the_devil_about_prayer d3ee4bed-e660-42a1-980f-0dab3f4e0525 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:17:46 GMT The confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday will impact this nation for decades, on issues ranging from free speech to racial preferences to gun rights. It will also become a major issue in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/08/09/sotomayors_confirmation_isnt_a_win_for_the_white_house 7b3e57e8-4838-4587-bfaf-b5bc1e8cd386 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:11:59 GMT My son just bought his first car this week at age sixteen. Not sixteen years; he's only sixteen months. Yet Congress just forced my toddler to buy a car this week, a car that he'll never even drive. That's what... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/08/07/my_toddler_just_bought_his_first_car 5931e2e1-a64e-4cda-a542-6bbf413480c7 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT There were too many falsehoods in President Obama's healthcare press conference to cram into one column. But three of them show just how far this president is willing to ignore the truth to push his political agenda.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/07/24/president_blames_doctors_for_health_care_costs 4dd8f72f-26eb-4221-bf42-8c0550b0828d Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:43:53 GMT People are praying in a city hall in Michigan, and atheists are up in arms. People of faith should hope the secularists push this into court, because this time the believers should win. There's something happening in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/07/08/praying_for_change 5a557e9d-3055-4601-bd90-56e49c3cf4dc Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT Co-authored with Ken Blackwell The Supreme Court's decision today in the racial preferences case Ricci v. DeStefano will be a major story. Less noticed but equally important, the Supreme Court's decision on voting... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/06/29/supreme_court_signals_major_change_in_voting_rights 4095fbb1-179e-42b5-b4ca-db95293bd4c4 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:38 GMT Last week President Obama appointed yet another "czar" with massive government power, answering only to him. Even before this latest appointment, the top-ranking Democrat in the Senate wrote President Obama a letter... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/06/15/senior_democrat_says_obamas_czars_unconstitutional a740a473-051f-402f-a803-7732d75c2a9a Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT Iowa's Supreme Court has now declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The court's claim to have dispassionately arrived at this decision is undermined by its comparison of this decision to prior cases about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/04/06/same-sex_marriage_comes_to_americas_front_yard 045eaa4f-7067-435f-9da9-f8b18929e3da Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:56:24 GMT President Obama announced his willingness Monday to pour billions more into American automakers, using the 2008 bailout legislation. On Sunday, conservative intellectual George Will wrote in the Washington Post that the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/04/01/unconstitutional_bailouts_and_george_wills_liberal_solution b5800ae5-00c3-4f3f-a95b-89c921b99488 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:44:32 GMT There's much commentary about civil rights and government power. But rights are only secure if a good judge is presiding over your case when you try to assert those rights. The process of confirming judges has been... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/03/03/the_right_to_a_good_judge fbf8eaab-7053-430b-910a-9ca0070176f9 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:10:50 GMT On Feb. 23, a federal court will consider the latest attempt to secularize America, led by militant atheist lawyer Michael Newdow. His lawsuit, Newdow v. Roberts, seeks to purge all references to God from presidential... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/02/20/god_save_america_from_militant_atheists 82f52f82-b146-4a3d-8da3-031a7adfa2d0 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:25:41 GMT