Clint Bolick

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Clint Bolick is the president and general counsel of the Alliance for School Choice, a national nonprofit educational policy group advocating school choice programs across the United States. Bolick is a co-founder of the Institute for Justice.

Bolick was an assistant at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission when current Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was EEOC chairman. While working for the Landmark Legal Foundation, Bolick led the defense for the first Wisconsin school voucher program.

Bolick often cites the interests of low-income schoolchildren in inadequate urban public schools as a focus of his school choice advocacy. He is the author of "Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle Over School Choice", and "The Affirmative Action Fraud: Can We Restore the American Civil Rights Vision?," both published by the Cato Institute.

Bolick successfully argued Granholm v. Heald, the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case striking down regulatory barriers to direct interstate shipment of wine to consumers.

In 2006, Bolick was the recipient of a Bradley Prize, an honor bestowed annually on public intellectuals and academics by the Lynne and Harry Bradley Foundation for excellence in the Foundation's stated mission of "strengthening American democratic capitalism." His most recent nonfiction book is David’s Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary (Cato Institute, April 2007). Bolick published his first novel, Nicki’s Girl, in 2007.

In June 2007, after serving three years at the Alliance, Bolick will leave to launch the Goldwater Center for Constitutional Litigation in Phoenix, Arizona. Bolick also will serve of-counsel to the Rose Law Group in Scottsdale, Arizona. He also serves as a research fellow with the Hoover Institution.

[edit] External link

• Clint Bolick at SourceWatch