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The Landmark Legal Foundation is conservative non-profit 501(c)3 legal advocacy group, with a $1 million annual budget.〔(Organizational Profile ) – National Center for Charitable Statistics (Urban Institute)〕 The President is Mark Levin. Through litigation and direct interfacing with government agencies, it advances a platform of limited government.〔(Landmark Legal Foundation on corporatepolicy.org )〕 Landmark has litigated a number of cases up to and before the US Supreme Court. == History == Landmark was founded in 1976 as an offshoot of The National Legal Center for the Public Interest with its focus on protecting individual rights, challenging the scope and authority of government, defending free enterprise, and exposing teachers' union fraud.〔(Landmark Legal Foundation )〕 Landmark has made efforts to scale back funding for non-profits which it holds to be political in nature but list no political expenditures on tax forms. The National Education Association has often been the subject of complaints to the IRS made by Landmark Legal. Throughout its history Landmark Legal Foundation has filed lawsuits against labor unions and has fought for legislation that would allow parents to direct public education funding toward their children's private schools, homeschooling, or school of choice. Clint Bolick has worked for the foundation.〔Steven Teles, 'Compassionate Conservatism, Domestic Policy, and the Politics of Ideational Change', in ''Crisis of Conservatism? The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, & American Politics After Bush'', Gillian Peele, Joel D. Aberbach (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 198〕 In 2007 the Landmark Legal Foundation nominated commentator Rush Limbaugh, who sits as an unpaid member of its advisory board, for a Nobel Peace Prize.
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