Institute for Justice: Totally Worth Your Donations

As I've mentioned before, it's one of the public interest law firms that I admire most.

I just gave some money to the Institute for Justice, a first-rate libertarian public interest law firm. I've long much admired IJ: I've litigated some First Amendment cases, but it's not that hard to win them, given how strong First Amendment protections generally are—IJ, on the other hand, has figured out ways of winning even economic liberties cases, where the degree of difficulty is much higher.

Here's IJ's little pitch, which I'm delighted to pass along, with my full endorsement:

Friends, please give us money. We will use it to sue the government, whether it is arresting a grandmother for feeding the hungry, or arresting people for making fun of the police, or framing them for crimes they didn't commit, or prosecuting them for non-crimes, or seizing innocent people's money, or fining innocent people outrageous sums, or charging outrageous fees to build an addition, or outlawing tiny homes on wheels, or outlawing innovative new businesses, or banning the sale of safe homemade foods, or using drones to conduct warrantless searches. Help IJ protect the constitutional rights of all Americans with a secure online donation today at ij.org/standup.

By the way, if you do donate (or have donated in the past), please leave a comment below saying you did, so your fellow readers can see. (No obligation, of course, but I think it might be nice.)

Comments

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

I've long much admired IJ

As much as you admire John Eastman?

Ted Cruz?

Josh Blackman?

[Libertymike]

No, as much as he admires you.

[BravoCharlieDelta]

They just won a food freedom case in WI. The State Democrat Nazi's were trying to arrest a granny for selling macaroons to her neighbors. She fought back with the help of the IJ and she won.

[Paul McKaskle]

I've donated.

[BillyG]

I have set my Amazon account to donate to IJ.

[Currentsitguy]

Is that an option on Smile now?

[Gorbag]

It has been for quite a while. I set it up years ago.

[Hendrik]

I donate at the end of every year. IJ and reason foundation are two of my top three. My wife donates monthly as well.

[scarhill]

IJ does a great job and is one of my annual charitable contributions.

[JEP41]

I've been donating to IJ since 1996.

Some of my other regular donations go to:
Cato Institute
Pacific Legal Foundation
Reason Foundation

[TommyK]

Monthly donor here. I'm always impressed by the difference they make in the lives of their clients and also the positive effects for everyone through precedent.

[Alaskan Curmudgeon]

I’ve donated this year, as I have for several years. IJ, FIRE, Smile Train and Doctors Without Borders, Reason and Cato are my mainstays for national/international giving.

Smile Train is one of my favorites, for very little money they change lives to be infinitely better.

[Dan Schiavetta]

They got their start by painting Lani Guinier as the (black) “quota queen”.

[David Nieporent]

No, they didn't.

[gormadoc]

"Like Castro, Mao freed his people from being humiliated by Western corporate interests." - you
Not at all surprising you don't like civil rights.

[Ed Grinberg]

Quotas (of the sort Ms. Guinier pushed) are inimical to (everyone's equal) civil rights. If captcrisis defends them (or, to be exact, defends someone who defends them), he is openly anti-(everyone's-equal)-civil-rights; you don't need to pull his old quotes to prove it.

[David Nieporent]

Yeah, they’re one of my higher priorities. There are other organizations that work for civil liberties, like the ACLU, but with the ACLU you’ve got to take a lot of stupid and negative stuff with their civil liberties work. With IJ, I don’t feel like I have to compromise.

[Gorbag]

I also donate annually. They're one of very few organizations I'm truly proud to support. (Reason Foundation too)