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Boy Scout Brief (on Petition for Writ of Certiorari)	November 26, 1999

The Olson law firm filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Public Advocate of the United States and the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education defending the right of the Boy Scouts to determine their own leadership. This brief urges that the U.S. Supreme Court grant certiorari and review the decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court which compels the Boy Scouts there to retain a homosexual activist as a scoutmaster, under the New Jersey state "Law Against Discrimination." (The Supreme Court granted the petition for certiorari.)

CATO Study: The Power of a President to Rule by Executive Order	October 28, 1999

“The problem of presidents’ using executive orders to legislate, usurping the powers of Congress or the states, has grown exponentially with the expansion of government in the 20th century,” William Olson, co-author of a new Cato Institute study on the abuse of executive orders, told the Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process of the House Rules Committee today. “This raises fundamental concerns about the separation and division of powers. The Constitution does not provide for the power of a president to rule by executive order.” Olson co-authored the study, “Executive Orders and National Emergencies: How Presidents Have Come to ‘Run the Country’ by Usurping Legislative Power,” with Alan Woll.

Testimony on Executive Orders before the House Rules Committee's Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process	October 27, 1999

Bill Olson was asked to testify before the House Rules Committee's Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process. The topic of the hearing was "The Impact of Executive Orders on the Legislative Process: Executive Lawmaking?" Bill Olson also submitted answers to questions before the House Rules Committee's Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process.

Bill Olson Speech on Executive Orders	July 14, 1999

Bill Olson spoke at a National Conference on Presidential Powers and Executive Orders at the headquarters of the Reserve Officers Association of the U.S. The title of his presentation was "Martial Law, Y2K, and Presidential Power"

Free Speech Coalition Comments to FEC on Membership	February 1, 1999

On behalf of the Free Speech Coalition, we filed comments with the Federal Election Commission supporting the proposed changes to revise the definition of a "member" of a membership organization, so long as the changes set forth in FSC's comments are incorporated into the adopted regulations. The first change is that membership organizations be permitted to waive the dues criterion for membership in appropriate instances according to predetermined specific criteria (such as financial hardship) approved by the organization's governing body, restoring the pre-1993 status quo. Next, FSC requests that the expanded requirements imposed on membership organizations to state expressly the rights, qualifications, obligations, and requirements for membership in its articles, bylaws and other formal organizational documents and to make these documents freely available to its members be stricken from the final regulations. The last change is that certain proposed sections which reject the state law definitions of "membership organizations" and "member" be removed from the final regulations.

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