Clint Bolick
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Clint Bolick (born December 26, 1957 in Elizabeth, New Jersey[1]), is an attorney and the director of the Goldwater Institute Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation in Phoenix, Arizona.[2]
Clint Bolick graduated from Drew University in 1979 and received his J.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1982.[1]
Bolick previously served as the president and general counsel of the Alliance for School Choice, a national nonprofit educational policy group advocating school choice programs across the United States. Bolick is a co-founder and former vice president of the Institute for Justice.[2]
Bolick was an assistant at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission when current Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was EEOC chairman. While working for the Landmark Legal Foundation, Bolick led the defense for the first Wisconsin school voucher program.[3]
Bolick often cites the interests of low-income schoolchildren in inadequate urban public schools as a focus of his school choice advocacy. He is the author of Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle Over School Choice, and The Affirmative Action Fraud: Can We Restore the American Civil Rights Vision?, both published by the Cato Institute.[2][3]
Bolick successfully argued Granholm v. Heald, the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case striking down regulatory barriers to direct interstate shipment of wine to consumers.[4]
In 2006, Bolick was the recipient of a Bradley Prize, an honor bestowed annually on public intellectuals and academics by the Lynne and Harry Bradley Foundation for excellence in the Foundation's stated mission of "strengthening American democratic capitalism." His most recent nonfiction book is David’s Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary (Cato Institute, April 2007). Bolick published his first novel, Nicki’s Girl, in 2007.[2]
Bolick also serves as of-counsel to the Rose Law Group in Scottsdale, Arizona and as a research fellow with the Hoover Institution.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Clint Bolick, NNDB
- ^ a b c d "Clint Bolick", Goldwater staff
- ^ a b Arizona Capitol Times
- ^ Granholm v. Heald, 544 U.S. 460 (2005), Oyez
- ^ "Clint Bolick - Attorney", Rose Law Group staff biography
[edit] External links
- Podcast featuring Bolick Bolick discusses judicial activism on EconTalk.
- Horizon Video Bolick debates the school-choice issue with ASU law professor Paul Bender.
- Golwater Institute Center for Constitutional Litigation
