Timothy H. Lee serves as Director of Legal and Public Affairs for the Alexandria, Va.-based
Center for Individual Freedom, a constitutional and free-market advocacy organization with more than 250,000 supporters and activists nationwide. Mr. Lee has extensive experience in the legal, political, and non-profit sectors on legislative, judicial and public affairs issues.
He frequently provides expert commentary on constitutional, political and free-market issues, as he has appeared as a guest on numerous talk radio shows and various television news programs.
Mr. Lee is also a frequent contributor of op-eds and letters-to-the-editor to major news publications, and has been quoted in numerous newspaper, Internet and magazine articles. In addition, Mr. Lee is a frequent participant at seminars and on public policy panels, and has commented upon issues dealing with taxation, intellectual property, regulation, judicial confirmations and campaign finance reform, among others.
Prior to joining the Center for Individual Freedom, Mr. Lee was an attorney in private practice in the Los Angeles, California and Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan areas. During his ten years of practice, Mr. Lee focused primarily upon corporate litigation and labor and employment law, and is therefore an expert in all matters concerning commercial and labor union issues.
Mr. Lee received his law degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, where he was a member of the University of Southern California Law Review and received numerous academic awards. Prior to obtaining his law degree, Mr. Lee received his Bachelor of Arts degree, Summa Cum Laude, in political science from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, after being born and raised in the Phoenix, Arizona area. He currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
Founded in 1998, the Center for Individual Freedom has emerged as a leading voice on many of the nation's preeminent legal and legislative issues, including the First Amendment, real and intellectual property rights, the free market, legal/tort reform, taxation, and energy policy, among others.
Recall that the supposedly “post-partisan” Obama also conveniently omitted powerful labor unions from his vitriol toward the Citizens United decision:
“The Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for Big Oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans. This ruling gives the special interests and their lobbyists even more power in Washington, while undermining the influence of average Americans who make small contributions to support their preferred candidates.”
“Powerful interests” other than Big Labor, that is.
Our Founding Fathers knew very well that every governmental effort to limit citizens’ freedom of speech invariably unlocks the floodgates to partisan favoritism and endless future efforts to suffocate individual rights.
Government efforts to impose so-called “campaign finance reform” abridge the First Amendment’s free speech protections regardless of political favoritism, but the fact that powerful special interests like Big Labor receive free passes makes them all the more shameful and destructive.
Timothy H. Lee is vice president of legal and public affairs at the Center for Individual Freedom.
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