Center for Individual Rights
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The Center for Individual Rights (CIR) is a nonprofit public interest law firm in Washington, D.C. The firm is "dedicated to the defense of individual liberties against the increasingly aggressive and unchecked authority of federal and state governments." The Center seeks to enforce constitutional limits on state and federal power. It aggressively litigates and publicizes cases that advance the right of individuals to govern themselves according to the natural exercise of their own reason.
Its cases challenge affirmative action, government regulation, unconstitutional state action, and other similar entanglements. CIR provides free legal representation to clients who cannot otherwise afford or obtain legal counsel and whose individual rights are threatened.
Author and attorney Ann Coulter is a notable former staff member.
Controversially the group has received money from the Pioneer Fund, an organisation which has supported research into genetic differences between blacks and whites.
