page_title: Clint Bolick
section_title: Goldwater Institute
hierarchical_section_title: Clint Bolick / Career / Goldwater Institute
caption_attribution_description: Clint Bolick speaking at a dinner fundraiser for the Goldwater Institute at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, and introducing Senator Rand Paul. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
context_page_description: Clint Bolick is an Associate Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. Previously, he served as Vice President of Litigation at the Goldwater Institute, where he litigated against governments and government employees on behalf of citizens. He co-founded the Institute for Justice, where he was the Vice President and Director of Litigation from 1991 until 2004. He led two cases that went before the Supreme Court of the United States. He has also defended state-based school choice programs in the Supreme Courts of Wisconsin and Ohio.
context_section_description: In 2007, he became the Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute when that organization added a litigation group.
  In 2009, Bolick became a sharp critic of nationally well-known Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, who has worked to stem the flow of illegal immigrants in the Southwest. Bolick claimed that Arpaio's "effectiveness has been compromised for the past several years by misplaced priorities."
  Bolick helped to draft model legislation known as the 'Health Care Freedom Act' that seeks to preserve the right of individuals to pay for health care directly instead of being compelled to enroll in a government-sponsored insurance plan. Arizona and Oklahoma voters approved a version of the Health Care Freedom Act in their respective November 2010 general elections.} Also in November 2010, voters in Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah adopted a measure he drafted called Save Our Secret Ballot, which guarantees workers the right to a secret-ballot vote in union-organizing elections.
  On July 30, 2015, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for the deportation of all of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Bolick called Trump's idea "impractical and opposed by a large majority of Americans."
caption: Bolick speaking at the 2014 Goldwater Dinner in Scottsdale, Arizona
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