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Tony Woodlief

Tony Woodlief

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Tony Woodlief is a senior fellow in the State Policy Network’s Center for Practical Federalism, which equips state and local elected officials with tools to embrace and protect self-governance. His essays have been published widely, including in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and The Washington Post, and he has appeared on Fox News, C-SPAN and radio programs across the U.S.

Woodlief is the author of the 2020 book I, Citizen: a Blueprint for Reclaiming American Self-Governance. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Wichita State University.

The Supreme Court seems likely to curtail federal agencies’ interpretations of laws passed by Congress, but Washington bureaucrats have another way to exercise unaccountable power over state and local governments. States and localities can fight back.
Despite what the pundit/political class says, most Americans agree on a lot more than they disagree on. Partisanship is real, but it doesn’t define us.
Attorneys general have the power to oversee the police departments in their states that need to be turned around. Solutions handed down from Washington are slow, cumbersome and unevenly applied.