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Nick Dranias

Policy Advisor and Research Fellow, The Heartland Institute

Dranias serves as NeWay Capital LLC’s General Counsel, handling all corporate legal matters. Prior to this, he was Senior Litigation Counsel with the Government Accountability & Special Litigation Unit of the Arizona Attorney General. He also serves as Policy Advisor and Research Fellow with the Heartland Institute, as an expert and Speaker’s Bureau member with the Federalist Society, a Law and Civil Liberties Speaker for Students for Liberty, a Council of Scholars member with Compact for America Educational Foundation, as well as an Adjunct Instructor teaching Business Ethics and Law at Grand Canyon University.

Previously, Dranias served as President & Executive Director of Compact for America Educational Foundation where he led national efforts to organize the states to propose and ratify a federal Balanced Budget Amendment. Prior to that, Dranias was General Counsel, Policy Development Director and Constitutional Policy Director at the Goldwater Institute. Dranias led the Institute’s successful challenge to Arizona’s system of government campaign financing to the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he was an attorney with the Institute for Justice for three years and an attorney in private practice in Chicago for eight years, where he served as Young Lawyers Section co-editor of the Chicago Bar Association Record and earned the Oliver Wendell Holmes Award for his service.

Dranias’ speaking topics include:

-Trump the Court: What a 6-3 Originalist Court Could Mean for the Second Amendment, Free Speech, the Administrative State and Civil Rights.

– A Disney World of Capitalism! How to Give Your Community the Power to Choose the State-of-the-Art in Limited Government and Free Market Public Policy Today.

– The “Dark Money” Witch Hunt versus Free Speech

– BBATF vs Compact for America vs Convention of States: What are the Actual Strengths and Weaknesses of the Various Article V Convention Efforts?

– Limitless Federal Debt: The Root Cause of All Federal Overreach

– States Take Charge: Washington is Broken, Can the States Fix It?

– Why State Sovereignty, not Historical Custom and Practice, is the Foundation of an Article V “Convention of States”

– A Stronghold for Freedom: How to Use Interstate Compacts to Lock Down Limited Government

– What Economic Liberty Is & How to Restore It