Donate to the Institute for Justice

I've just donated to the Institute for Justice, one of the top libertarian public interest law firms in the country, and a weekly contributor to this blog: IJ's John Ross writes the excellent Short Circuit feature. If you want to support libertarian litigation, donating to IJ is a great way to do that. Here's John's pitch:

Friends, please give us money. We'll use it to publish the Short Circuit newsletter and also to sue the government when it shuts down soup kitchens without warning or cause, arrests a grandma at gunpoint on a decades-old warrant for a different person, falsely declares property blighted (so it can be taken via eminent domain), confiscates a $95k airplane over a six-pack of beer, raids construction sites and detains innocent citizens because they appear Latino, extorts people who want to build an addition on their home, and many other dastardly and irrational deeds. Help IJ protect the constitutional rights of all Americans today at ij.org/donate.

Comments

[hobie]

You know, Eugene, I have followed most of the cases of the IJ. And as much as I would like to categorize it as the kiss-of-death which is MAGA, they do many things I agree with. And they do it in neutral words. I support you.

[David Nieporent]

I love IJ and donate to them every year. First, they are almost always on the right side of things. Second, unlike many organizations, they actually do something about those things. Not always successfully, of course. (That's all too rare, but that's not their fault; the U.S. isn't very libertarian.) But their efforts are active. That's not to say that there isn't a place for research and advocacy and awareness-raising and such. Of course there is, and I donate to Reason and Cato too. But at some point those need to translate into concrete action, and IJ does that.

[JoeBloggs]

Thanks for the great suggestion. Since the ACLU has lost the plot, IJ is the preeminent organization defending our rights from being trampled by the tyrants in government.