Philanthropy III: Ideology, Think Tanks, and Litigation

Researching Nonprofits

• Limitations of public information
• Guidestar and Form 990
• SourceWatch (liberals investigating conservatives) and Capital Research Center (conservatives investigating liberals)
• Foundation Center

The Bradley Foundation (Callahan 146-147) and its 2016 Form 990

Bradley and labor issues (more to come...)

Think Tanks

• Birthright citizenship

Legal Groups

• Networking
• Analysis
• Litigation

The Federalist Society

 

FEDERALIST SOCIETY FUNDING (UPDATE TO TELES 148)

Supreme Court nominations (with a familiar name)

Jay Michaelson at The Daily Beast:

“Our opponents of judicial nominees frequently claim the president has outsourced his selection of judges,” McGahn said at a Federalist Society event last year. “That is completely false. I’ve been a member of the Federalist Society since law school, still am, so frankly it seems like it’s been in-sourced.”

Citizen Suits

• Clean Water Act
• Safe Drinking Water Act
• Clean Air Act 1970
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

 POLICY CAUSES POLITICS

• The Environmental Bar
• The targets of regulation hire lawyers, too

 

Litigation

• The Cost of Litigation & the Contingent Fee System
• Test Cases
• Sympathetic Plaintiffs