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George Will never mentions he has a connection to Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty.
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George Will guilty of conflict of interest - The Washington Post
In a Nov. 19 piece, Washington Post columnist George Will wrote some nice things about an outfit called theWisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), a group that litigates in the areas of “property rights, the freedom to earn a living, voting rights, regulation, taxation, school choice, and religious freedom.” This nonprofit is fighting what Will terms a Justice Department attempt to destroy the school-choice program in Wisconsin.
“The Justice Department’s perverse but impeccably progressive theory can be called ‘osmotic transfer,’” writes Will. “It is called this by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), which is defending Wisconsin children against Washington’s aggression. The department’s theory is: Contact between a private institution and government, however indirect or attenuated the contact, can permeate the private institution with public aspects, transferring to it, as if by osmosis, the attributes of a government appendage.”
Will is railing against the Justice Department’s directive that Wisconsin’s state education bureaucracy take “stronger steps to ensure children with disabilities are enrolled and served properly by private voucher schools,” according to a May 2013 story in the Journal Sentinel. The columnist writes, “The federal government is attempting to order the state to require the choice schools to choose between the impossible and the fatal — between offering services they cannot afford or leaving the voucher program.” WILL is pushing back, with arguments that Will endorses.
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In a Nov. 19 piece, Washington Post columnist George Will wrote some nice things about an outfit called theWisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), a group that litigates in the areas of “property rights, the freedom to earn a living, voting rights, regulation, taxation, school choice, and religious freedom.” This nonprofit is fighting what Will terms a Justice Department attempt to destroy the school-choice program in Wisconsin.
“The Justice Department’s perverse but impeccably progressive theory can be called ‘osmotic transfer,’” writes Will. “It is called this by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), which is defending Wisconsin children against Washington’s aggression. The department’s theory is: Contact between a private institution and government, however indirect or attenuated the contact, can permeate the private institution with public aspects, transferring to it, as if by osmosis, the attributes of a government appendage.”
Will is railing against the Justice Department’s directive that Wisconsin’s state education bureaucracy take “stronger steps to ensure children with disabilities are enrolled and served properly by private voucher schools,” according to a May 2013 story in the Journal Sentinel. The columnist writes, “The federal government is attempting to order the state to require the choice schools to choose between the impossible and the fatal — between offering services they cannot afford or leaving the voucher program.” WILL is pushing back, with arguments that Will endorses.
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