Davenport, David

=bs hoover<div class="panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-fellow-sites no-title" style="line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field field-name-field-fellow-sites field-type-link-field field-label-above" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><div class="field-items" style="line-height: 24px; font-weight: bold;"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://daviddavenport.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 147); text-decoration: none;">See Davenport's personal website</a></div></div></div></div><div class="panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body ellipses ellipses-class-field-items ellipses-height-120 no-title" style="line-height: 19px;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-above" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><div class="field-label" style="font-weight: bold; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Biography: </div><div class="field-items" style="float: none; position: static;"><div class="field-item even">David Davenport is a research fellow specializing in international law and treaties, constitutional federalism, and American politics and law.Davenport is the former president of Pepperdine University (1985–2000). Under his leadership, the university experienced significant growth in quality and reputation. Davenport cofounded Common Sense California and the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership. He also served on the board of California Forward, a major bipartisan reform group, and was a member of Governor Schwarzenegger’s California Performance Review Commission. Davenport is a member of two corporate boards as well.His work on policy appears in a number of places, including a regular column in Forbes.com and regular radio commentaries on the Salem Radio Network and Townhall.com.He recently coauthored the book The New Deal and Modern American Conservatism, which explains how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today’s US domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and conservatives.Davenport has also contributed chapters to Hoover books on values in a free society and legal threats to American values and has authored articles in Policy Review on “The New Diplomacy” and “The Politics of Literacy.” Davenport is a popular public speaker, having served for several years as a world affairs lecturer for Crystal Cruises.Davenport earned a BA with distinction in international relations from Stanford University and a JD from the University of Kansas School of Law, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and earned national and international awards in moot court competitions.</div></div></div></div>=misc recent bs: California Raisins And The New Deal 7-15-15by David DavenportWednesday, July 15, 2015For those discouraged over other late-term Supreme Court decisions, you might have missed one they got right. The Court held that taking a farmer’s raisins as part of a New Deal-era price support and subsidy program was a “taking” under the 5th amendment of the Constitution and had to be compensated.Podcastsan imageThe Supreme Court's Newly Invented Right To Equal Dignity And The Problems It Will Causeby David Davenportvia ForbesWednesday, July 8, 2015In case you missed it, Justice Kennedy and the majority of the Supreme Court invented a new constitutional right when they overruled bans on same sex marriage.ArticlesDavid DavenportDavenport: Roberts Moves From Umpiring To Batting On Healthcareby David Davenportvia TownhallMonday, July 6, 2015Hoover Institution fellow David Davenport discusses Chief Justice Roberts and the Affordable Care Act.Podcastsan imageWhy Has Chief Justice Roberts Moved From Umpiring To Batting On Healthcare?by David Davenportvia ForbesThursday, June 25, 2015Could someone please remind Chief Justice John Roberts of his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee in his confirmation hearings in 2005?Articles
The Supreme Court Removes One Raisin Of The Smothering New Deal Legacyby David Davenportvia ForbesTuesday, June 23, 2015According to conventional U.S. history texts, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal ended sometime in the late 1930’s. Unfortunately, that is one more urban myth that needs to be exposed on Snopes.com. To our detriment, the New Deal is alive and well, still serving as the basic framework for U.S. domestic and economic policy.Articlesan imageRugged Individualism Is Exactly The Wrong Case For Obamacareby David Davenportvia ForbesMonday, June 15, 2015President Obama has been heating up the rhetoric about Obamacare as the Supreme Court prepares to announce its decision on whether the whole program might collapse over illegal subsidies. In a press conference, he meddled in the work of the judicial branch, saying the Court should never have taken the case in the first place.ArticlesThe Supreme Court of the United StatesDavenport: Supreme Court Decision Timeby David Davenportvia TownhallTuesday, June 9, 2015Hoover Institution fellow David Davenport on the upcoming decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court.Podcasts
Must God Keep Up With The Times?by David Davenportvia ForbesMonday, June 1, 2015Perhaps you have missed it amid all the heated rhetoric about gay marriage, but seemingly serious people have proposed that henceforth Almighty God—or at least God’s people and churches—must keep up with modern times.Articles
Apparently 90% Of Harvard Faculty Can Agree On Something: Giving To Democratsby David Davenportvia ForbesThursday, May 7, 2015I guess we now know why William F. Buckley famously said: “I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”Articles
A Lump Of Coalby David Davenportvia TownhallTuesday, April 21, 2015Hoover fellow David Davenport discusses President Obama's use and abuse of executive power:This is David Davenport of the Hoover Institution for Townhall.com.With Congress and the President at odds, the President continues to use his executive power pen in powerful and unconstitutional ways. Now the executive branch’s Environmental Protection Agency wants to force coal plants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 30 percent.But a complicated policy question of energy independence versus clean air is not a matter for an administrative agency to decide on its own. Even President Obama’s liberal constitutional law professor from Harvard, Laurence Tribe, agrees this goes too far. He says “burning the Constitution should not become part of our national energy policy.”Those who defend the President argue that he has not issued an extraordinary number of executive orders. But it’s not just about quantity—it’s also about substance. When a president tries to run everything from immigration to gun control to health care and now the environment by executive order, it’s too much.The courts must stop him.....==

Scaife also endowed a new school of public policy at Pepperdine University. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr was named the first dean of this school, although Pepperdine denies any connection between Scaife and the selection of Starr. Starr accepted the post in 1996, but in the ensuing controversy, he gave up the appointment in 1998 before ever having started at Pepperdine. However, once the investigation was behind him, Starr was appointed to head Pepperdine's law school in 2004 and became president of Baylor University in 2010.[25]

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Another, similar Scaife-financed organization is the Washington Legal Foundation, previously known as the Capital Legal Foundation. On its Legal Policy Advisory Board are Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, John Norton Moore of the University of Virginia Law School, and Massachusetts governor and former LaRouche prosecutor William Weld. On its National Board of Advisers are Senators Fred Thompson (Tenn.) and Orrin Hatch (Utah)--both involved in Senate investigations of the Clintons--and Jesse Helms, who played a role in the dumping of the first Whitewater independent counsel and his replacement with Kenneth Starr.

The work of Scaife's network of conservative legal foundations is overseen by the Washington-based National Legal Center for the Public Interest (NLCPI), which he, of course, also funds. One of the directors of NLCPI is David Davenport, president of Pepperdine University; Scaife is on Pepperdine's board of trustees. Davenport and Scaife also sit together on the advisory board of the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace in Palo Alto, California.

It is David Davenport who has offered Bush-leaguer Kenneth Starr a cushy position at Pepperdine University, financed in large part by Scaife, when Starr wraps up his investigation and legal assault on President Clinton as the Whitewater independent counsel. Starr may be ``independent'' of the administration, but he is certainly not independent of Dickie Scaife.

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David Davenport "has been a director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Salem_Communications_Corporation" title="Salem Communications Corporation">Salem Communications Corporation</a> since November 2001. Mr. Davenport is a distinguished professor of public policy and law at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pepperdine_University&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pepperdine University (page does not exist)">Pepperdine University</a> and has served in that position since August 2003. He is also a research fellow at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hoover_Institution" title="Hoover Institution" class="mw-redirect">Hoover Institution</a> and has served in that position since August 2001. Mr. Davenport was the Chief Executive Officer of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Starwire_Corporation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Starwire Corporation (page does not exist)">Starwire Corporation</a>, a software service company formerly known as Christianity.com, from June 2000 to June 2001. Mr. Davenport served as President of Pepperdine University from 1985 to 2000. From 1980 through 1985, he served as a Professor of Law, General Counsel, and Executive Vice President of the University. Mr. Davenport currently serves on the governing and advisory boards of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hope_Network_Ministries&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hope Network Ministries (page does not exist)">Hope Network Ministries</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Forest_Lawn_Memorial_Parks_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Forest Lawn Memorial Parks Association (page does not exist)">Forest Lawn Memorial Parks Association</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Legal_Center_for_the_Public_Interest" title="National Legal Center for the Public Interest">National Legal Center for the Public Interest</a>. He also serves on advisory boards of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clark/Bardes,_Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Clark/Bardes, Inc. (page does not exist)">Clark/Bardes, Inc.</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Inside_Track&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Inside Track (page does not exist)">Inside Track</a>. Mr. Davenport also serves on the board of directors of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ameron_International_Corporation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ameron International Corporation (page does not exist)">Ameron International Corporation</a>." --<a href="http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromMktGuideIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedMktGuideId=326816" class="external text" title="http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromMktGuideIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedMktGuideId=326816" rel="nofollow">Forbes</a>; accessed March 1, 2005.

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Starr's connections to Richard Mellon Scaife and other Clinton-haters financing the scandals:

Star accepted a Scaife-funded tenured chair at Pepperdine University. (The ensuing scandal caused him to reject it.)
Starr sits on the board of the Scaife-funded Washington Legal Foundation.
Starr has done work for the Scaife-founded Landmark Legal Foundation, which has done work for Paula Jones.
Starr prepared a legal brief for Paula Jones on behalf of the Independent Women’s Forum, which is Scaife-financed.
Starr spoke at the Richard Mellon Scaife-funded Property Rights Group while working as independent counsel.
Starr spoke at right-wing televangelist Pat Robertson's Regent University while working as independent counsel.
Starr performed legal work for the conservative Bradley Foundation

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