Great legal quotes of the week : January 19, 2024
"I would have thought Congress might have addressed student loan forgiveness if that were really such an important issue to one party in Congress. I would have thought maybe they would have fixed the eviction moratorium. I could go on-and-on on these issues. They don't get addressed because Chevron makes it so easy for them not to tackle the hard i ...
Pacific Legal Foundation’s 2023 highlights
2023 was a particularly big year for Pacific Legal Foundation. We celebrated our 50th birthday, which gave us the opportunity to reflect on moments that made PLF what we are today. Since 1973, we have had the privilege of changing lives: We've helped our clients challenge unjust government actions in the court of law and the court of public opin ...
Bloomberg profiled PLF’s successes at the Supreme Court. Here’s what they got right and wrong.
Bloomberg just published a feature on Pacific Legal Foundation—quoting me—that has me split. On one hand, I love that Bloomberg is talking about "PLF's mastery of the long game." But the article got only half the story right. The article is a dual-profile of PLF and Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal advocacy group. Both PLF and ...
Wall Street Journal : How Schools Flout the Supreme Court’s Affirmative-Action Ruling
Even before the Supreme Court's landmark June ruling that Harvard and the University of North Carolina were guilty of discriminating against Asian-Americans, some were confident schools would find a way to keep doing it. Virginia's Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is now showing how. When the high court decided to take S ...
Celebrating 50 years of PLF memories
At Pacific Legal Foundation, our North Star is protecting individual rights. For 50 years now, we have teamed up with courageous and untiring clients to fight back against unconstitutional laws and regulations, overreaching local governments and agencies, and public policies that violate individual rights. As we look back on PLF's history for ...
50 years of fighting — PLF looks back at our beginning
It was 50 years ago today, on March 5, 1973, that Pacific Legal Foundation was born. Afterward newspaper Human Events said the date "may go down in history as the day the worm began to turn." For those of us who came of age with a vibrant, growing liberty movement, it's hard to remember how different things were in 1973. There was no Cato Inst ...
The 7 best legal podcasts for non-lawyers
If you like courtroom dramas, legal controversies, and the strange-but-true stories behind big Supreme Court cases, this list of best legal podcasts is for you. Note: We're not including true crime in our definition of legal podcasts—although some of the below podcasts do dive into the occasional murder case. True crime podcasts are a sep ...
The Hill : Entrepreneurs in the construction industry deserve opportunity, not racial quotas
An optimistic small-business owner in New York, Henry Kaiser's life changed when he asked his girlfriend's father for permission to marry her. Kaiser's future father-in-law said he'd permit no wedding until Kaiser had saved enough money and built a house for his bride. He left Kaiser with one piece of advice: Move west. Kaiser did just that. His ...
A man who grew the PLF community : Dick Bradley, 1929–2022
Next year Pacific Legal Foundation will be celebrating our 50th anniversary. It's a milestone we would not have reached without the tireless work and indefatigable enthusiasm of people like Dick Bradley, who just passed away at the age of 93. Since Dick won't be here for next year's celebrations, I want to take a moment to share the kind of p ...