[5]After their break with Mountain States, they began planning a free-enterprise public interest law firm that would follow a philosophy of "economic liberty.

While he only stayed at the EEOC for a year, he became friends with its chairman, future Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

[7]) Thomas helped convince him that removing economic barriers for the poor was more important than fighting race-based "reverse discrimination.

"[9] Thomas also shaped his preferred remedy for inequality: removing laws and regulations he viewed as preventing the poor from starting small businesses.

Thomas did this in part by telling Bolick about his grandfather, who began with a hand-built pushcart and built a profitable delivery service that comfortably supported his family, only to encounter threats from regulations designed to destroy Black-owned businesses.

In this book, he defined civil rights in part from the perspective of removing economic and regulatory barriers for the poor and disadvantaged.

[6] In 1989, he left the Justice Department and, with a grant from the Landmark Legal Foundation, started a public advocacy law practice in Washington, D.C.

On July 31, 1991, about 45 people from Thomas' hometown of Pin Point, Georgia visited Washington to show support for the nominee.

At the time, Bolick told The Washington Post that the Landmark Center for Civil Rights raised $3,000 to pay for bus rental and contributed another $1,100 for hotel charges.

[13] In 1991, Bolick and Chip Mellor (his former boss from the Mountain States Legal Foundation) co-founded the Institute for Justice with funding from billionaire Charles Koch.

[24] Clinton went on to describe the effort to stop Guinier's appointment as "a campaign of right-wing distortion and vilification", and according to press reports referred to Bolick's editorial with "particular scorn".

[25] Other critics accused Bolick and conservatives who opposed Guinier of racism and sexism, often citing the phrase "quota queen" as evidence.

[30] Arizona and Oklahoma voters approved a version of the Health Care Freedom Act in their respective November 2010 general elections.

The case resulted in the Arizona Supreme Court declaring tattoos Constitutionally protected free speech.

[35][36] On July 30, 2015, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for the deportation of all of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.