That’s not easy to answer. For too many conservatives, the temptation is to wait out the storm. Times change, cultures shift, so why risk social and career-ending exposure?
We get it. These are tough fights, especially for individual citizens. At the Claremont Institute, however, we prefer to take up the gauntlet—because we know that going along meekly with the Left’s squad of tyrants-in-training only emboldens their despotic ambitions. And one of the most effective tactics at our disposal is the strong legal work of our Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, together with its constellation of affiliated attorneys.
We filed an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the Texas law restricting the ability of social media companies to censor users. The Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of Texas and the Supreme Court now has the case.
We are working on a brief in support of the states suing the Biden administration for working with Facebook and other social media platforms to censor the speech of individuals.
We are representing Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene in their lawsuit against the California cities of Anaheim and Riverside, as well as several leftist non-governmental organizations, for what we have alleged was a conspiracy to cancel their campaign rally in southern California in July 2021.
And we supported Alaska State Representative (and former Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow) David Eastman in his defense against efforts to have him removed from the Alaska Legislature because of his lifetime membership in Oath Keepers – an organization of former military and law enforcement dedicated to upholding their oaths to support the Constitution!
There is more—much more—on the horizon and on the docket, as they say.
