Nonprofits, Ideology and Litigation

 For Thursday, Cigler, ch. 5

Researching Nonprofits

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

Think Tanks and Foundations on the Right

• A local tank and: Birthright citizenship
• Heritage
• The Bradley Foundation  and its 2016 Form 990 ... COVID Activities

Think Tanks and Foundations on the Left

• Progressive Infrastructure Map (we also discussed on 10/13)
• Center for American Progress

Legal Groups

• Networking
• Analysis
• Litigation

The Legal Network of the Right

• The Federalist Society
• FedSoc and SCOTUS
• 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.”
• FEDERALIST SOCIETY FUNDING 
• JCN
• Becket Fu
• ACLJ and Jay Sekuilow

On the Left

• Constitutional Accountability Ctr
• ACLU
• Alliance for Justice network

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