877-989-2255

Showed up on caller ID

We seem to get calls from this number almost daily.   We have yet to answer one because we don't answer any 800# calls unless we expect one.

Got a call from this number, caller ID simply said Unknown.  With a little research, I found a company listing but have no idea why they'd be calling.

American Center for Law and Justice
P.O. Box 90555
Washington, DC 20090-0555
1-800-296-4529

Legal Helpline Phone:  757-226-2489
Legal Helpline Fax:  757-226-2836

Member Services:  757-802-9160

Radio call-in number:  1-800-684-3110 (from 12-12:30 PM EST/EDT.)

Petition call-in number:  1-877-989-2255

For information on broadcasting Jay Sekulow Live! or Jay Sekulow Weekend:
Phone:  770-414-0806

I got call from America Center for Law and Justice and answered but caller unanswered, very annoying.

These are what others say about ACLJ;

"WHAT A SCAM! When you pick up, the caller asks could you please listen to Joe ??(couldn't catch the last name) message about a group that is trying to get the courts to take "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance and other government-related documents and places. They ask you to hold on after the message to add your name to the petition to preserve our national heritage and the foundation upon which our country was built.
I listened to the message and then a different person picked up and asked me could I help the American Center for Law and Justice with their cause by contributing $100 or $250. When I told them I don't do contributions to telemarketers but if they sent some literature on their organization so I could research their group first, the telemarketer just hung up without getting any additional information for their petition. "


Legal Times reporter Tony Mauro has just written a fascinating and eye-opening piece about Jay Sekulow, TV preacher Pat Robertson’s top lawyer.

Sekulow, an increasingly powerful ally of the Bush administration, has led the Religious Right’s charge to remake the U.S. Constitution in the far right’s image. Through his American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), Sekulow has worked assiduously to erode the wall of separation between church and state and bring religion and government closer together.

The article reveals a side of Sekulow that has received much less attention: the personal financial empire he has built. As Mauro explains, Sekulow told Legal Times in June that his salary was $275,000 a year. But Mauro discovered that did not include compensation from another group Sekulow runs. Added together, the salary figure was far higher, and Sekulow later conceded his salary now exceeds $600,000 yearly. Sekulow was making so much money that he arranged to work for the ACLJ (which is a non-profit organization) as an independent contractor, so that his salary does not have to be publicly reported on financial disclosure forms.

Sekulow has also spread the wealth among family members. As Legal Times reported, “At various times in recent years, Sekulow’s wife, brother, sister-in-law, and two sons have been on the boards or payrolls of organizations under his control or have received generous payments as contractors. Sekulow’s brother Gary is the chief financial officer of both nonprofit organizations that fund his activities, a fact that detractors say diminishes accountability for his spending.”
The article goes on to note, “According to documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service, funds from his nonprofits have also been used to lease a private jet from companies under his family’s control.”

Sekulow’s use of non-profits to enrich himself and his family does not sit well with some of his associates. One anonymous former employee told Legal Times, “Some of us truly believed God told us to serve Jay, but not to help him live like Louis XIV. We are coming forward because we need to believe there is fairness in this world.” "

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I just got a call from this # decieded to call them back and give them a piece of my mind.  no answer
also get calls from Willmington MA and other places never an answer. reported it to the don't call and they say they can't do anything cause there is no company name.  ???

Dear Thomas,

Your comments are well taken, but you need to know that there is no mythical "wall of separation."  That is a concept contrived long after the Constitution was ratified, is a misinterpretation of a letter Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists and is not part of the First Amendment.  

For those of you bothered by these calls, if you call the Customer Service center of the ACLJ, 757-802-9160, they will remove your number from their list.  Hopefully.

I do not agree with non-profit leaders who mishandle money trusted to them, but I hate when someone criticize a human being for giving employment to their family members like if they will not do the same if they were able.  People please use common sense when criticizing others and give only valid criticism.

Called my cell phone. Did not leave a message. What a shock. :O|