Landmark Legal Foundation
- Landmark Legal Foundation
The Landmark Legal Foundation is non-profit 501(c)3 conservative legal advocacy group, with a $1 million annual budget. The President is Mark Levin. Through litigation and direct interfacing with government agencies, they advance a platform of limited government. [ [http://www.corporatepolicy.org/issues/Landmark.htm Landmark Legal Foundation on corporatepolicy.org] ] In 2007 it nominated commentator Rush Limbaugh, who sits as an unpaid member of its advisory board [ [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-01-2007/0004518421&EDATE= Landmark Legal Foundation Nominates Rush Limbaugh for 2007 Nobel Peace Prize ] ] , for a Nobel Peace Prize.
History
Landmark was founded in 1976 as an offshoot of The National Legal Center for the Public Interest with its focus on protecting individual rights, challenging the scope and authority of government, defending free enterprise, and exposing teachers' union fraud. [ [http://www.landmarklegal.org/DesktopDefault.aspx Landmark Legal Foundation ] ] Landmark has made efforts to scale back funding for non-profits which it holds to be political in nature but list no political expenditures on tax forms. The National Education Association has often been the subject of complaints to the IRS made by Landmark Legal. Throughout its history Landmark Legal Foundation has filed lawsuits against labor unions and has fought for legislation that would allow parents to direct public education funding toward their children's private schools, homeschooling, or school of choice
Funding
Among its contributors are the Allegheny Foundation; Lynde and Harry Bradley, Foundation, Inc.; Carthage Foundation, Castle Rock Foundation; JM Foundation; Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation; Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.; John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.; Sarah Scaife Foundation; and the Scaife Family Foundation. [ [http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=747 Media Transparency: Recipient Grants: Landmark Legal Foundation ] ]
Notes
External links
* [http://www.landmarklegal.org/ Foundation Website]
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2173655 Dahlia Lithwick on Landmark Legal and Bush judicial appointments]
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