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

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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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Law and Government

Hans BaderApril 2, 2015
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Myths about Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Myths have permeated the media’s coverage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act enacted in Indiana. (I have no position on such legislation, which I previously…
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Education

Hans BaderMarch 24, 2015
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Fallout from racist Oklahoma frat may harm free speech and even private colleges

Recently, members of the Oklahoma chapter of the SAE fraternity were caught on video chanting a mind-bogglingly racist song that…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderMarch 20, 2015
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Ferguson is more typical than President Obama thought

On March 4, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division issued a report criticizing the Ferguson police department and courts. In…
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Education

Hans BaderMarch 20, 2015
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Federal education regulations deprive students of justice and due process

Last week, I participated in a March 13 panel discussion at the National Press Club titled “Bringing an End to…
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Education

Hans BaderMarch 15, 2015
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Civil Rights Commissioners oppose budget hike for Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights

On February 26, two members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Gail Heriot and Peter Kirsanow, wrote to the…
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Education

Hans BaderMarch 3, 2015
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Another illegal, uncodified, unvetted Education Department rule

Recently, I wrote about a report to the Senate by a task force of college presidents, on how the Education…
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Education

Hans BaderFebruary 26, 2015
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Education Department floods schools with new rules and regulations, flouting legal limits

Recently, a task force of college presidents chronicled massive regulatory overreaching by the U.S. Department of Education, which, on a daily basis,…
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Education

Hans BaderFebruary 12, 2015
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NPR ombudsman erroneously claims free speech doesn’t include hate speech

National Public Radio (NPR) receives taxpayer subsidies based on its false pretense of objectivity and accuracy. Its departing ombudsman, Edward…
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Education

Hans BaderFebruary 5, 2015
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Congress should reject Obama’s proposed budget increase for the Office for Civil Rights

The Obama administration perversely rewards agencies that overstep their authority by giving them bigger budgets to handle the increased workload…
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Economy

Hans BaderFebruary 3, 2015
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Obama promotes risky lending; taxpayers and economy at risk

Edward Pinto wrote in The Wall Street Journal Friday about how the Obama administration is artificially creating markets for risky mortgages, using…
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Economy

Hans BaderFebruary 2, 2015
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Study: Trimming unemployment benefits helped economy

President Obama’s policies shrank employment and delayed the nation’s economic recovery by discouraging people from working. The Congressional Budget Office says Obamacare will shrink…
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Education

Hans BaderJanuary 26, 2015
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Misleading NPR report leads to costly, illegal Education Department rules on sexual harassment

Bad things can happen when an agency (like the Education Department) throws caution to the wind and imposes rules based on misleading…
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Economy

Hans BaderJanuary 22, 2015
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Obama State of the Union proposals would cause double taxation and job losses

In his recent State of the Union Address, President Obama called for tax increases on the wealthy, such as by…
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Education

Hans BaderJanuary 15, 2015
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Mistaken hug by disabled student leads to suspension for ‘sexual assault’

Campus hysteria about sexual assault may have claimed another victim, judging from a news report by NBC 5 in Dallas:…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderJanuary 9, 2015
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Reaction to terrorist attack shows disturbingly weak support for free speech

My wife Sylvie, who grew up in France, is terribly shocked about Wednesday’s terrorist attack on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which…
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Education

Hans BaderJanuary 6, 2015
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Education Department says Harvard violated Title IX by failing to parrot bureaucrats

Can a federal agency find you in violation of the law, not for actions that violate a statute, but for…
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Economy

Hans BaderJanuary 6, 2015
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Central planning disrupts the harmonious order created by free markets

Beginning in the 1930’s, the federal government sharply increased central planning of the economy and society. (Perhaps as a consequence,…
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Education

Hans BaderDecember 27, 2014
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Affirmative consent activists seek to expand government meddling in your private life

Left-wing social engineers are never satisfied. Give them an inch and they will take a mile. So it is with fanatical “Only Yes…
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Education

Hans BaderDecember 23, 2014
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California school baits kids to get expelled in new public service announcement

California’s North Oakland Community Charter School helped produce a Public Service Announcement encouraging kids to do something that would get them expelled…
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Education

Hans BaderDecember 8, 2014
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University of Virginia violated Constitution through collective guilt suspension for sororities and frats

Earlier, the University of Virginia suspended all of its sororities and fraternities until January 9, in the wake of a…
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Economy

Hans BaderDecember 4, 2014
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Dodd-Frank Act causes misery and starvation through conflict-minerals rules

Much misery has been inflicted upon the Congo and millions of desperately poor people by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act’s “conflict…
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Economy

Hans BaderDecember 2, 2014
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Legal immigrants, other groups have standing to challenge Obama’s unconstitutional immigration action

Some legal scholars have suggested that even if President Obama’s recent immigration action is unconstitutional or illegal, no one has…
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Economy

Hans BaderNovember 21, 2014
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Obama’s immigration action expands the welfare state

Barack Obama’s decision yesterday to offer temporary legal status to five million illegal aliens has been assailed as a violation…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderNovember 21, 2014
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Progressives violate Establishment Clause through taxpayer-funded green ministries

Liberal reporters like separation of church and state, except when it’s violated by their fellow progressives. Then, they lose interest…
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Education

Hans BaderNovember 18, 2014
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LGBT bias law treats people as guilty until proven innocent

Anti-bias regulations are sometimes biased and hostile to civil liberties. At Overlawyered, Walter Olson discusses a disturbing new gay-rights law hailed by…
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Law and Government

Hans BaderNovember 14, 2014
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Immigration: Obama’s invalid suspension of the law is not exercise of prosecutorial discretion

As some of you know, my employer, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has supported some of the President’s immigration initiatives in…
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Education

Hans BaderNovember 13, 2014
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Minneapolis imposes unconstitutional racial quotas in school discipline

Given a choice between following the law, and doing what a bureaucrat with power over them wants, people will often…
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Economy

Hans BaderNovember 6, 2014
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Voters hike minimum wage, reject rail boondoggles

On Tuesday, voters approved increases in state-level minimum wages in four states (Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota), although to levels…
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Education

Hans BaderOctober 28, 2014
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Progressives coddle rapists, while smearing innocent people as predators

The Talmud says that “he who is kind to the cruel is cruel to the kind.” That aptly describes many…
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Education

Hans BaderOctober 22, 2014
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Obama administration federalizes school bullying in disability-harassment ‘guidance’

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), where I once worked, declared yesterday that schools can be liable for…
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Education

Hans BaderOctober 16, 2014
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State-mandated dirty talk in California: Governor signs unconstitutional SB 967

Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill regulating college students’ romantic lives, which I discussed earlier.…
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Hans Bader

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

Fallout from racist Oklahoma frat may harm free speech and even private colleges

Ferguson is more typical than President Obama thought

Federal education regulations deprive students of justice and due process

Civil Rights Commissioners oppose budget hike for Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights

Another illegal, uncodified, unvetted Education Department rule

Education Department floods schools with new rules and regulations, flouting legal limits

NPR ombudsman erroneously claims free speech doesn’t include hate speech

Congress should reject Obama’s proposed budget increase for the Office for Civil Rights

Obama promotes risky lending; taxpayers and economy at risk

Study: Trimming unemployment benefits helped economy

Misleading NPR report leads to costly, illegal Education Department rules on sexual harassment

Obama State of the Union proposals would cause double taxation and job losses

Mistaken hug by disabled student leads to suspension for ‘sexual assault’

Reaction to terrorist attack shows disturbingly weak support for free speech

Education Department says Harvard violated Title IX by failing to parrot bureaucrats

Central planning disrupts the harmonious order created by free markets

Affirmative consent activists seek to expand government meddling in your private life

California school baits kids to get expelled in new public service announcement

University of Virginia violated Constitution through collective guilt suspension for sororities and frats

Dodd-Frank Act causes misery and starvation through conflict-minerals rules

Legal immigrants, other groups have standing to challenge Obama’s unconstitutional immigration action

Obama’s immigration action expands the welfare state

Progressives violate Establishment Clause through taxpayer-funded green ministries

LGBT bias law treats people as guilty until proven innocent

Immigration: Obama’s invalid suspension of the law is not exercise of prosecutorial discretion

Minneapolis imposes unconstitutional racial quotas in school discipline

Voters hike minimum wage, reject rail boondoggles

Obama administration federalizes school bullying in disability-harassment ‘guidance’

State-mandated dirty talk in California: Governor signs unconstitutional SB 967

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