Posted by Orin Kerr:
Adler on Conservative/Libertarian Public Interest Groups:
My friend Jonathan Adler has a [1]very interesting piece in Legal
Affairs on conservative and libertarian public interest legal
organizations such as the Institute for Justice and the American
Center for Law and Justice. An excerpt:
There is no right-wing legal monolith, no cohesive, unified
"freedom-based public interest law movement" . . . . The groups
collected under this moniker lack a single, overarching agenda. For
every I.J. advancing libertarian notions about government power,
there is a more traditional conservative group seeking to protect
Judeo-Christian moral values and preserve or expand religion's
place in the public square. Although such groups may see a common
enemy in the liberal elites that they believe still dominate the
nation's legal culture, the organizations have different goals,
different funding sources, and different constituencies�and
sometimes they even go toe-to-toe against one another.
References
1. http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/May-June-2005/review_adler_mayjun05.msp
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