our constitution - under seige
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Santa Monica Screening
1526 14th St.
Santa Monica, CA
(near Colorado)
March 9th 2014
11 am - 1 pm
The US Constitution is the supreme law of our country, yet in recent years, there have been numerous statutes, regulations, executive orders, court rulings, and ordinary decisions and actions taken which are in violation of our Constitution.
Most disturbing, President Obama circumvents the Constitution routinely, irrespective of Congress, in order to implement his big government agenda. Despite having once been a Constitutional law instructor, Obama, demonstrates disdain for the Constitution and for the principle of separation of powers. His administration ignores the law, circumvents the Constitution and its system of checks and balances, and outright defies Congress.
At our next meeting, Our Constitution - Under Siege, we expose this fundamental threat to our nation.
Our special guest speakers are Clark Neily, litigator for Constitution cases for the Institute for Justice; and Susan Shelley, author, Constitutional expert, and candidate for the California Assembly.
This presentation is free. There is ample on-street free parking.
Seating is limited.
1526 14th St.
Santa Monica, CA
(near Colorado)
March 9th 2014
11 am - 1 pm
The US Constitution is the supreme law of our country, yet in recent years, there have been numerous statutes, regulations, executive orders, court rulings, and ordinary decisions and actions taken which are in violation of our Constitution.
Most disturbing, President Obama circumvents the Constitution routinely, irrespective of Congress, in order to implement his big government agenda. Despite having once been a Constitutional law instructor, Obama, demonstrates disdain for the Constitution and for the principle of separation of powers. His administration ignores the law, circumvents the Constitution and its system of checks and balances, and outright defies Congress.
At our next meeting, Our Constitution - Under Siege, we expose this fundamental threat to our nation.
Our special guest speakers are Clark Neily, litigator for Constitution cases for the Institute for Justice; and Susan Shelley, author, Constitutional expert, and candidate for the California Assembly.
This presentation is free. There is ample on-street free parking.
Seating is limited.
CLARK NEILY
Clark Neily joined the Institute for Justice as a senior attorney in 2000. He litigates economic liberty, property rights, school choice, First Amendment, and other constitutional cases in both federal and state courts.
He served as counsel in a successful challenge to Nevada’s monopolistic limousine licensing practices, which effectively prevented small -business-persons from operating their own limousine services in the Las Vegas area. He was the lead attorney in the Institute’s successful defense of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy against a lawsuit by the Michigan Education Association challenging the Center’s right to quote the MEA’s president in fundraising literature, and he led IJ’s opposition to a nationwide effort to cartelize the interior design industry through anti-competitive occupational licensing requirements. Clark is also a member of the Institute’s school choice team. Besides representing parents and children in defense of Florida’s Opportunity Scholarship Program and school choice programs in Arizona, Maine, Milwaukee, and elsewhere, he has participated in many debates in support of school choice.
Clark helped create the Institute’s Center for Judicial Engagement, which was designed to challenge the unconstitutional expansion of government by articulating a principled vision of judicial review, educating the public about the importance of a properly engaged judiciary, and advocating the Constitution as a charter of liberty and a bulwark against the illegitimate assumption of government power. Clark has written a book about judicial engagement, titled Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution’s Promise of Limited Government.
In his private capacity, Clark served as co-counsel for the plaintiffs in District of Columbia v. Heller, the historic case in which the Supreme Court announced for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun for self-defense.
Before joining the Institute for Justice, Clark spent four years as a litigator at the Dallas-based firm Thompson & Knight, where he worked on a wide variety of matters including professional malpractice, First Amendment and media law, complex commercial cases, and intellectual property litigation. Clark received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas, where he was Chief Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Royce Lamberth on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Clark Neily joined the Institute for Justice as a senior attorney in 2000. He litigates economic liberty, property rights, school choice, First Amendment, and other constitutional cases in both federal and state courts.
He served as counsel in a successful challenge to Nevada’s monopolistic limousine licensing practices, which effectively prevented small -business-persons from operating their own limousine services in the Las Vegas area. He was the lead attorney in the Institute’s successful defense of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy against a lawsuit by the Michigan Education Association challenging the Center’s right to quote the MEA’s president in fundraising literature, and he led IJ’s opposition to a nationwide effort to cartelize the interior design industry through anti-competitive occupational licensing requirements. Clark is also a member of the Institute’s school choice team. Besides representing parents and children in defense of Florida’s Opportunity Scholarship Program and school choice programs in Arizona, Maine, Milwaukee, and elsewhere, he has participated in many debates in support of school choice.
Clark helped create the Institute’s Center for Judicial Engagement, which was designed to challenge the unconstitutional expansion of government by articulating a principled vision of judicial review, educating the public about the importance of a properly engaged judiciary, and advocating the Constitution as a charter of liberty and a bulwark against the illegitimate assumption of government power. Clark has written a book about judicial engagement, titled Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution’s Promise of Limited Government.
In his private capacity, Clark served as co-counsel for the plaintiffs in District of Columbia v. Heller, the historic case in which the Supreme Court announced for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun for self-defense.
Before joining the Institute for Justice, Clark spent four years as a litigator at the Dallas-based firm Thompson & Knight, where he worked on a wide variety of matters including professional malpractice, First Amendment and media law, complex commercial cases, and intellectual property litigation. Clark received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas, where he was Chief Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Royce Lamberth on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
SUSAN SHELLEY
Susan Shelley is the author of three books on the U.S. Constitution -- "The 37th Amendment" is a novel about doing away with "due process of law" and the fight in the future over whether to bring it back; "How the First Amendment Came to Protect Topless Dancing" is a history of the Bill of Rights up to the present day; and "Uncle Sam's Nickel: the Five Percent Flat Tax that will Restore Freedom and Prosperity" is a proposal for a constitutional amendment to replace the federal income tax with a five percent flat tax.
Drawing on the research for the books, Susan wrote newspaper op-ed articles and a blog about issues related to constitutional rights. She became personally involved in politics in 2010 as the volunteer director of communications for Republican Congressional candidate David Benning. In 2012, she ran for Congress herself against rival Democratic incumbents Howard Berman and Brad Sherman, winning the endorsements of the Los Angeles Daily News, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and the California Republican League. At the urging of many community leaders, Susan ran for the California Assembly in a 2013 special election and came within 329 votes of victory in a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a two-to-one margin.
Born in Chicago, Susan moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was in high school. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from California State University, Northridge, and upon graduation went to work in the television industry. She was an executive secretary and then a production assistant for Merv Griffin Enterprises, becoming the Associate Producer of the game show "Jeopardy!" and eventually going on to be a full-time writer.
Susan Shelley is the author of three books on the U.S. Constitution -- "The 37th Amendment" is a novel about doing away with "due process of law" and the fight in the future over whether to bring it back; "How the First Amendment Came to Protect Topless Dancing" is a history of the Bill of Rights up to the present day; and "Uncle Sam's Nickel: the Five Percent Flat Tax that will Restore Freedom and Prosperity" is a proposal for a constitutional amendment to replace the federal income tax with a five percent flat tax.
Drawing on the research for the books, Susan wrote newspaper op-ed articles and a blog about issues related to constitutional rights. She became personally involved in politics in 2010 as the volunteer director of communications for Republican Congressional candidate David Benning. In 2012, she ran for Congress herself against rival Democratic incumbents Howard Berman and Brad Sherman, winning the endorsements of the Los Angeles Daily News, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and the California Republican League. At the urging of many community leaders, Susan ran for the California Assembly in a 2013 special election and came within 329 votes of victory in a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a two-to-one margin.
Born in Chicago, Susan moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was in high school. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from California State University, Northridge, and upon graduation went to work in the television industry. She was an executive secretary and then a production assistant for Merv Griffin Enterprises, becoming the Associate Producer of the game show "Jeopardy!" and eventually going on to be a full-time writer.