Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray published a letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal on November 23, 2021 rebuffing attempts to blame high gas prices on ethanol. He writes, The Renewable Fuel Standard isn’t an ethanol mandate and the cost of ethanol isn’t driving gas prices 24 cents higher. Despite price rises affecting almost every commodity,…
On November 22nd, 2021, Boyden Gray & Associates filed an opening brief challenging SEC’s order approving a new rule requiring almost every Nasdaq-listed company to impose “diversity” quotas for certain minimum numbers of women, racial minorities, and sexual minorities on those companies’ boards of directors. Any company that does not meet these quotas must file an “explanation” for why it…
On November 5th, 2021, Boyden Gray & Associates filed a petition asking the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to issue an administrative stay and a stay pending judicial review of the emergency temporary standard (vaccine mandate) issued without notice-and-comment by the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). The vaccine mandate covers 84 million American workers and will…
Amb. C. Boyden Gray and Dr. Ben Carson published an editorial in The Washington Examiner on August 26, 2021, urging public health officials to follow the science and stop suppressing the discussion of early COVID-19 treatment options for all patients. They write, The bulwark of opposition to repurposed drugs from public health officials, tech companies, academics, and the media has…
A letter from Amb. C. Boyden Gray sent to the City of Evanston, Illinois on behalf of the Project on Fair Representation was cited by the New York Times on Saturday. The article, “Reparations for Black Residents Are Becoming a Local Issue as Well as a National One” discusses a proposal for a Detroit reparations committee that will research housing…
On September 28, 2021, the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) and Boyden Gray & Associates filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on behalf of a New Hampshire resident whom the state prohibited from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine solely because of his race. Earlier this year, New…
Boyden Gray & Associates filed an amicus brief today in the Supreme Court on behalf of the D.C. Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in favor of the petitioner in Orlando Carter v. District of Columbia, No. 21-340. The brief urges the Court to grant certiorari and hold that the First Amendment protects religious nonprofits’ right to hire those who share…