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Clint Bolick

0-Government Preferences
Mission Unaccomplished: The Misplaced Priorities of the Maricopa County Sheriff ’s Office

MISSION UNACCOMPLISHED: THE MISPLACED PRIORITIES OF THE MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF ’S OFFICE

Entrepreneurship
Right To Earn A Living Act

Download the report here EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Of all the rights that Americans cherish, freedom of enterprise receives the least protection under..

Equal Protection
Native American Children: Separate But Equal?

Originally written by Clint Bolick for Newsweek The obituary of Laurynn Whiteshield depicts her as a happy and playful little girl...

Equal Protection
A.D. v. Washburn

QUICK STATUS Last Step Filed notice of appeal in the Ninth Circuit. Next Step File opening brief. Read the Equal..

School Choice
Nevada Places a Bet on School Choice

Education savings accounts are available to all of the state’s 385,000 public-school students.

Campaign Finance Regulation
McComish V. Bennett (Clean Elections)

The Goldwater Institute partnered with the Institute for Justice to bring an end to the use of matching funds as..

Entrepreneurship
Let’s take the carriage-horse fight to court

Mayor de Blasio wants to run roughshod over economic freedom

Entrepreneurship
Putting the cart before the horse

Why an industry ban won't hold up in court

Subsidies/ Corporate Welfare
Taking on the union freebies

In September, my colleague Mark Flatten released an investigative report showing that Phoenix and other Arizona cities spend millions of dollars every year to pay employees to perform union work on city time. Less than three months later, we are going to court on behalf of Phoenix taxpayers to put an end to the practice of union “release time.”

0-Related Reforms
Local Control – Sometimes

Whenever local bureaucrats or special-interest groups want to neutralize conservative legislators, one of their most-potent weapons is two words: “local control.”

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