Brad Dacus served as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, and went on to receive his Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas School of Law. For the next five years, Mr. Dacus coordinated religious freedom and parental rights cases throughout the Western states. In 1997, Mr. Dacus founded Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), where he serves as President and continues to defend religious liberties and parental rights. The...

MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms is the only in-house, litigation only Second Amendment center in the country. The right to keep and bear arms is a corollary to the right to life—and the right to defend your life with the tools of your choice. This right is not granted by government or the Second Amendment. Rather, it is a natural, pre-existing right that is protected by the Second Amendment. Nevertheless, this right is continually...

Anne Marie Schubert became a prosecutor fresh out of law school and joined the Sacramento County’s District Attorney’s office in 1996. She never left. Though recent headlines have been abuzz about progressive D.A.s in Los Angeles and San Francisco who want to make the criminal justice system less punitive, Schubert is a career prosecutor of the older school: Tight with law enforcement, vocal about the rights of crime victims and...

Dr. Barbara Stone, Chairman Emeritus of the San Gabriel Valley and South East LA County Lincoln Club Chapters is a retired Republican Professor of political Science in an overwhelmingly liberal Democrat state university since the 1960’s and is still remarkably sane and lucid. She has been the political North Star for the California Federation of Republican Women since the 1970’s and was their Woman of the Year in 1995. She served on...

Dr. James Coyle is an international consultant on issues of national security. He has been a lecturer at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy in the same field for over 20 years. Prior to his time in academia, Dr. Coyle had a distinguished career with the US government. Some of his positions included Director of Middle East Studies at the US Army War College, First Secretary for Political Military Affairs at the US...