The Center's Director, Dr. John Eastman , and former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III submitted the brief that argued for the right of the Scouts to exclude homosexuals from their organization. The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence developed a three-pronged argument in the brief. The Center argued that the New Jersey ruling interfered with the moral training provided by the Scouts, was contrary to well-established precedent of the New Jersey court, and conflicted with decisions of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and several state courts of last resort. The Claremont Institute is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1979 whose mission is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life. The Institute formed the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public interest law firm, in order to further its mission through strategic litigation.
Litigation is both a means of protecting the rights of injured parties, and a means of education.
The Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence is Dr. John Eastman. He is professor of constitutional law at the Chapman University School of Law. He previously served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. His law degree is from the University of Chicago. He has a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the Claremont Graduate School, and he was previously affiliated with the Claremont Institute as a research associate and a Publius Fellow.