Sam Kazman is general counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Prior to joining CEI in 1986, he was managing attorney of the Washington DC office of the Pacific Legal Foundation.
His op-eds and comments have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Review, and more. Kazman has also appeared on national radio and television programs such as The Today Show, Fox News, Fox Business, and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, and National Public Radio, among others.
Kazman is a graduate of Cornell University and received his Juris Doctor cum laude at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School.
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News
Ninth Circuit Ruling Against Washington State Couple Opens Door to Wealth Taxes
WASHINGTON—A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit today ruled against Charles and Kathleen Moore’s constitutional challenge to President Trump’s Mandatory Repatriation Tax. The panel dismissed…
Biden Administration Will Force Americans to Buy More Expensive Cars That They Don’t Want
President Joe Biden plans to announce several measures aimed at lowering carbon emissions, including a new rulemaking for more stringent CAFE standards and an executive…
Lawsuit Challenges Biden’s National Climate Task Force’s Defiance of Freedom of Information Act
A new lawsuit by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) seeks to subject President Biden’s National Climate Task Force to the federal Freedom of Information…
Blog
The Flipside of Earth Day
- By: Sam Kazman
If I wanted America to fail,To follow, not lead,To suffer, not prosperTo despair, not dreamI’d start with energy.I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap…
Seven Quotes about Communism
- By: Sam Kazman
Years ago, I pulled together some quotations about Communism that I thought would make good epitaphs for what I believed was a dying ideology. Unfortunately,…
Andy Thompson, Rest in Peace
- By: Sam Kazman
CEI lost a good friend and former colleague last week. Andrew M. Thompson, our very first fundraising director, died suddenly last Wednesday at his home…
Op-Eds/Articles
Issues & Insights
The Dark Side Of Earth Day
- By: Sam Kazman
If I wanted America to fail,To follow, not lead,To suffer, not prosperTo despair, not dreamI’d start with energy.I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap…
The Wall Street Journal
What the SEC Needs to Hear on Climate Risk
- By: Sam Kazman
There’s an infinite range of greenhouse-emission details that could fall under the SEC’s newly proposed climate-disclosure rules. No doubt the agency will cut that down…
Real Clear Energy
Memory Holes Are Greatly Improved
- By: Sam Kazman
Memory holes are much more energy efficient today. And much less polluting. When George Orwell first introduced memory holes in his novel 1984, published 72 years…
Studies
Rule Forcing Tests for Safer Air Bags Expected Today
Protect Federalism
- By: Sam Kazman
Recognize the Elitist Nature of Anti-Sprawl Measures
- By: Sam Kazman
Liberate to Stimulate Index For the greater part of the last century, many people have sought the American Dream by raising their…
Citations
The Center Square
9th Circuit ruling against Washington state couple could mean more federal wealth taxes
- By: Sam Kazman
The Center Square cites CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman on tax legislation: The case is the result of the Moores facing an unexpected tax bill…
The Washington Post
Trump’s Push for Faster, but Wasteful Dishwashers Appears Headed for Rinse Cycle
- By: Sam Kazman
The Washington Post cites general counsel Sam Kazman on the Energy Department’s plan to reverse Trump-Era changes to appliances: It was mourned by people…
The Washington Times
Biden Climate Task Force Ignored Open-Records Request, Think Tank Claims In Lawsuit
- By: Sam Kazman
The Washington Times cites CEI’s recent lawsuit: The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to force President Biden’s newly created National…