Hans Bader

Hans Bader practices law in Washington, D.C. After studying economics and history at the University of Virginia and law at Harvard, he practiced civil-rights, international-trade, and constitutional law. He also once worked in the Education Department. Hans writes for CNSNews.com and has appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal.” Contact him at hfb138@yahoo.com

Education

Hans BaderOctober 25, 2015
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Powerful left-wing lobbies seek to silence dissent and anonymous speech on campus

Last Wednesday, 72 left-wing groups, including the Feminist Majority Foundation, American Association of University Women, and Leadership Conference on Civil and…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderOctober 25, 2015
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Pa. Attorney General refuses to resign despite being suspended from the practice of law

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was suspended from the bar on October 22 for her apparent crimes by the Pennsylvania Supreme…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderOctober 24, 2015
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Illegal affirmative action based on sexual orientation in California

At the Washington Post, UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh recently wrote about apparent “preferences for gay-, lesbian-, bisexual-, and transgender-owned subcontractors in…
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Education

Hans BaderOctober 15, 2015
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By accident, New York Times reveals stupidity of ‘Yes Means Yes’ sexual assault policies

Today the New York Times published a balanced news story that inadvertently revealed the stupidity of “Yes Means Yes” policies. Those policies redefine a great deal of consensual…
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Education

Hans BaderOctober 2, 2015
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Obama peddles gun control fable

As Howard Portnoy noted earlier, some countries that ban or heavily restrict guns have higher rates of mass shootings than…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderSeptember 30, 2015
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No, OCR’s April 4, 2011 Dear Colleague letter is not entitled to deference

Earlier, I explained why the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) was wrong to demand in 2011 that colleges…
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Education

Hans BaderSeptember 26, 2015
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Senator Alexander criticizes Education Department power grabs

On Thursday, The College Fix published an interesting story titled “Department of Education shredded for lawless overreach in Senate hearing.”…
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Education

Hans BaderSeptember 15, 2015
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Liberal Congressman: Expel innocent students accused of sexual assault

When due process is eroded for a disfavored class of people, many innocent people are harmed, and the exception to…
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Education

Hans BaderSeptember 13, 2015
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To avoid sexual assault charges, students at Ohio State must be able to agree on ‘why’ they had sex

Years ago, there was a show on television called “The Newlywed Game.” The purpose was to find out how well…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderSeptember 8, 2015
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Intrusive demand for donor lists challenged in lawsuit against CA attorney general

The Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) recently filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, urging it…
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Education

Hans BaderSeptember 7, 2015
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Education Department rewards lying by twisting Title IX

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, where I used to work, is gradually turning Title IX into a license…
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Economy

Hans BaderSeptember 3, 2015
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Federal Medicare provisions punish thrifty seniors even more than before

If two couples make almost the same amount of money, should one of them be charged $2,000 more in Medicare…
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Education

Hans BaderAugust 28, 2015
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Black Lives Matter activists: Only criminals’ lives matter

Murders are up 43% this year in Washington, D.C., yet when the City’s black mayor, Muriel Bowser, proposed an increased police…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderAugust 28, 2015
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The nation’s worst state attorneys general revealed

Yesterday, I issued another of my periodic “worst state attorney general” lists, in a lengthy report explaining why those attorneys…
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Education

Hans BaderAugust 27, 2015
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You won’t believe who Think Progress commenters blame Virginia shootings on

Virginia shooter Vesper Flanagan murdered two of his former co-workers at a TV station in cold blood. After killing the…
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Economy

Hans BaderAugust 24, 2015
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Feds worsen affordable-housing mandates that spawned 2008 financial crisis

Federal affordable housing mandates have done little or nothing to raise homeownership rates, but they did contribute to a devastating…
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Economy

Hans BaderAugust 19, 2015
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More coal bankruptcies: Are President Obama’s wishes coming true?

In a January 17, 2008, interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, then-Senator Obama said that “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket” under…
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Economy

Hans BaderAugust 17, 2015
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Dodd-Frank law strangles America’s small banks

The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act was enacted partly to end the problem of “too-big-to-fail” banks, but it has done quite the…
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Economy

Hans BaderJuly 26, 2015
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Dodd-Frank Act fuels violence through conflict-minerals rule

The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act increased violence in the Congo by 143% and looting by 291%) through its “conflict minerals” rule,…
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Economy

Hans BaderJuly 21, 2015
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HUD’s ‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing’ Rule is not about desegregation

Failure to meet a racial quota does not constitute segregation. That basic fact has eluded the federal Department of Housing and Urban…
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Economy

Hans BaderJuly 18, 2015
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EEOC outlaws sexual orientation discrimination, usurps legislative power

When Congress declines to pass a law that would expand an agency’s powers, the agency will sometimes respond by making…
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Economy

Hans BaderJuly 11, 2015
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Federal financial aid triggers tuition increases, study says

The federal government is now admitting that its own financial aid is partly to blame for rising tuition, notes Blake…
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Economy

Hans BaderJuly 1, 2015
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Supreme Court disparate-impact ruling creates confusion and uncertainty

The Supreme Court’s June 25 decision in Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project creates confusion…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderJune 30, 2015
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Supreme Court authorizes unaccountable gerrymanders

If you are going to have gerrymandering of Congressional districts, it might as well be done by a state legislature,…
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Economy

Hans BaderJune 20, 2015
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Smuggling and hunger caused by Dodd-Frank conflict minerals rule

The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act effectively restricted American business’s ability to obtain minerals from the war-torn nation of the Congo and surrounding…
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Education

Hans BaderJune 19, 2015
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Obama administration pressures universities to adopt unconstitutional speech codes

Under the Obama administration, the Education Department has pressured universities and the public schools to restrict speech, including off campus…
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Education

Hans BaderJune 10, 2015
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Prosecutors and colleges call dissent a ‘threat’ on campus and at Reason.com

The Supreme Court has said that “true threats” can be banned without violating the First Amendment, but that doesn’t mean…
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Hans BaderMay 27, 2015
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FAA endangers public safety through illegal racial ‘diversity’ obsession

The Federal Aviation Administration is endangering public safety by getting rid of key merit-based hiring criteria for air traffic controllers…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderMay 25, 2015
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Brown v. Nucor Corp. decision flouts rules on class actions, evidence, and appeals

A May 11 decision by a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals showed contempt for binding Supreme Court precedent, defied…
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Economy

Hans BaderMay 19, 2015
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Democrats label lazy welfare recipients as ‘working families’

Welfare is often unpopular with the voters who fund it through their taxes. So California politicians and academics who support it…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderMay 12, 2015
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Obama makes false claims yet again about Supreme Court’s Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision

Recently, President Obama once again made false claims about what the Supreme Court did in its decision in Ledbetter v.…
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Hans BaderMay 7, 2015
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Coverage of ‘Draw Muhammad’ contest reveals stupidity of liberal journalists

Progressive journalists often not only get the law wrong, but then have the audacity to smugly talk down to people…
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Economy

Hans BaderMay 1, 2015
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Deceptive anti-discrimination laws undermine justice and harm small businesses

Discrimination may be bad for business, but that doesn’t mean laws banning discrimination are good for business. Often, these laws…
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Economy

Hans BaderApril 21, 2015
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Liberals peddle debunked myths about corporate personhood

Progressivism is essentially a religion based on a set of shared myths and boogeymen. True believers cling to those myths…
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Economy

Hans BaderApril 14, 2015
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The AAUW’s myths about equal pay and discrimination

Today is Equal Pay Day. That means it’s time for false statistics and legal claims from groups pushing for red tape about employee pay, such as…
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Education

Hans BaderApril 9, 2015
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Hugs are now ‘sexual assault’ at the University of Virginia

If you hug your boyfriend and as a result your clothed body (including your breasts) touches him, you could be…
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Hans Bader

Powerful left-wing lobbies seek to silence dissent and anonymous speech on campus

Pa. Attorney General refuses to resign despite being suspended from the practice of law

No, OCR’s April 4, 2011 Dear Colleague letter is not entitled to deference

Senator Alexander criticizes Education Department power grabs

Liberal Congressman: Expel innocent students accused of sexual assault

To avoid sexual assault charges, students at Ohio State must be able to agree on ‘why’ they had sex

Intrusive demand for donor lists challenged in lawsuit against CA attorney general

Education Department rewards lying by twisting Title IX

Federal Medicare provisions punish thrifty seniors even more than before

Black Lives Matter activists: Only criminals’ lives matter

The nation’s worst state attorneys general revealed

You won’t believe who Think Progress commenters blame Virginia shootings on

Feds worsen affordable-housing mandates that spawned 2008 financial crisis

More coal bankruptcies: Are President Obama’s wishes coming true?

Dodd-Frank law strangles America’s small banks

Dodd-Frank Act fuels violence through conflict-minerals rule

HUD’s ‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing’ Rule is not about desegregation

Federal financial aid triggers tuition increases, study says

Supreme Court disparate-impact ruling creates confusion and uncertainty

Supreme Court authorizes unaccountable gerrymanders

Smuggling and hunger caused by Dodd-Frank conflict minerals rule

Obama administration pressures universities to adopt unconstitutional speech codes

FAA endangers public safety through illegal racial ‘diversity’ obsession

Brown v. Nucor Corp. decision flouts rules on class actions, evidence, and appeals

Democrats label lazy welfare recipients as ‘working families’

Coverage of ‘Draw Muhammad’ contest reveals stupidity of liberal journalists

Liberals peddle debunked myths about corporate personhood

The AAUW’s myths about equal pay and discrimination

Hugs are now ‘sexual assault’ at the University of Virginia

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