The Tom Wood Show, episode 1800.

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checkout. Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. I am joined today by Honestasia Bowton who is an attorney

in the Pacific Legal Foundation's Economic Liberty Project where she challenges anti-competitive

licensing laws and laws that restrict freedom of speech. She's helped entrepreneurs navigate

impossible and obviously unjust bureaucratic requirements and she's taking her legal knowledge

in other words and putting it in the service of good, decent, hard working people.

So I thought it would be a good idea to talk to her and about her work. Honestasia,

welcome to the show. Hi, thanks for having me. It's good to be here.

Can you start off by saying a little something about the Pacific Legal Foundation itself?

Sure, the Pacific Legal Foundation is a nonprofit legal organization that represents people

free of charge when their constitutional rights are being violated and we specialize in economic

liberty. That's my specialization at least representing entrepreneurs, small businesses when

they're trying to start up but they are inhibited by red tape essentially and anti-competitive regulations.

And we do a little bit of property rights work and environmental work. We really sort of run

the gamut and we've been to the Supreme Court many a time so that's our goal is to get to the

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