Fundador:
Pat Robertson
Fundador también del 700 Club, American Center for Law and Justice, Operation Blessing, Regent University
Presidente:
Jay Sekulow
- The National Law Journal has twice named Sekulow one of the «100 Most Influential Lawyers» in the United States. (1994, 1997); he is a leading conservative lawyer, and has argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court.
- In 2005, Sekulow was named one of the «25 Most Influential Evangelicals» in America by TIME Magazine.
- Sekulow has also worked closely with the White House in promoting and defending the Bush administration’s Supreme Court nominees.
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Misión:
Defending and advancing religious liberty, the sanctity of human life, and the two-parent, marriage-bound family.»
Notas
- In 2004-2005 played a key role in the effort to eliminate the minority party’s ability to make use of a senatorial filibuster for judicial nominees.
- ACLJ gives free legal advice and counsel and maintains a national Christian Affiliate Attorney list for referrals.
- Two of the Supreme Court cases argued by Sekulow have become benchmark cases in the area of religious liberty litigation. In Board of Education of Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (496 US 226), Sekulow argued the right of public school students to form Bible clubs and religious organizations on their school campuses. In Lamb’s Chapel v. Center Moriches School District, Sekulow defended the rights of religious groups to use public school property for religious meetings after hours.
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