Interview with Todd Gaziano
From Voices of Freedom by Rick Graber
November 25, 2025 · 34 min · Season 3 · Episode 11
About this episode
Todd Gaziano discusses the Center for Individual Rights and its role in defending constitutional principles.
An Interview with Todd Gaziano, President, Center for Individual Rights At a time when constitutional rights face continuing pressures---from campus censorship to race-based government policies---one organization has spent the last 35 years winning legal battles that set lasting precedents for individual liberty. The Center for Individual Rights was founded in 1989 to defend constitutional principles through strategic litigation. Its first major Supreme Court victory, Rosenberger v. University of Virginia in 1995, established that public universities cannot discriminate based on religious viewpoint---a principle that continues to influence cases to this day. CIR also secured landmark victories challenging race-based admissions policies in the University of Michigan cases. Our guest on this episode of Voices of Freedom is Todd Gaziano, who became CIR's president in 2023. Before joining CIR, he led legal centers at both the Pacific Legal Foundation and the Heritage Foundation, served as a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and worked in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel and as chief counsel to a House subcommittee. He discusses CIR's strategic…
People in this episode
Host: Rick Graber
Guest: Todd Gaziano
Topics covered
- constitutional rights
- individual liberty
- strategic litigation
- free speech
- religious liberty
- equal protection
- race-based admissions
Keywords
- constitutional rights
- individual liberty
- free speech
- religious liberty
- strategic litigation
- equal protection
- race-based admissions
- Todd Gaziano
- Center for Individual Rights
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Center for Individual Rights, Pacific Legal Foundation, Heritage Foundation, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Justice Department
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