Scott Day Freeman

Litigation Attorney, individual rights. Former Vice Chair of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. Aerospace Engineer. My personal account & views.

[Scott Day Freeman @FREEMAN_AZ]

Our right to speak should not be conditioned on a willingness to disclose the causes we support, nor should it be conditioned on a willingness to be exposed to the retaliation and harassment controversial views can elicit. In defense of the silenced, Goldwater took action today!

[Goldwater Institute @GoldwaterInst]

In Arizona, the right to support the causes you believe in without fear of retaliation or harassment is under attack.

But Goldwater is standing up for free speech, and today we filed a lawsuit challenging Prop 211's unconstitutional mandates #FreeSpeech

https://t.co/HF8oGLPEyC

[Parker Jackson @ParkerDJackson]

The @GoldwaterInst recently secured a key rule clarification in the AZ Supreme Court that affects public records cases and other "special" lawsuits. The procedural fix is a win for govt transparency, separation of powers, and the public’s ability to resolve disputes in court.

https://t.co/2bYdfzgCZv

[Dr Owen Anderson @dr_owenanderson]

“ubi jus ibi remedium” if there is a right there is a remedy. A cornerstone principle of common law. Yet @ASU and @AZRegents are asking the @AZCourts to suspend this principle and keep me as an employee from holding them responsible for racist DEI training.

[Goldwater Institute @GoldwaterInst]

If a legal right exists, so does the right to enforce it.

That's the case we made before the Arizona Supreme Court today on behalf of @dr_owenanderson, a professor at ASU who is fighting for his right NOT to be forced into discriminatory DEI training.

[Timothy Sandefur @TimothySandefur]

Big day at @GoldwaterInst today. My colleague Jon Riches will be in the Arizona Supreme Court in our lawsuit to enforce the state’s prohibition on mandatory DEI indoctrination sessions: https://t.co/YVsDnjEOqY

But I won���t be there, because…

[Goldwater Institute @GoldwaterInst]

We're standing up for Kathy Kite, a Missouri woman who just wants to feed her community. Bureaucrats are trying to shut her down. Kathy isn't having it -- and neither are we.

"I'm not gonna stop providing for my community. I wouldn't stop feeding my children, I wouldn't stop feeding my family. I'm not gonna stop feeding my community cause they are my family… This is bigger than that. It's about love and appreciation because they appreciate what I do."

https://t.co/MApWwtddBI

[Scott Day Freeman @FREEMAN_AZ]

and the teacher's unions spent millions to try to keep kids locked into the system they control.

[TheLegalProcess (v3.0 | Instruction Not Therapy) @ALegalProcess]

https://t.co/WZCvevjWcX

[Scott Day Freeman @FREEMAN_AZ]

Those launches were investments that paid for themselves many times over with the ongoing revenue each batch of sats unlocked. The low launch cost coupled with the high subscriber cash flow made them the money machines that built this mega constellation.

[Kiko Dontchev @TurkeyBeaver]

This morning’s @SpaceX mission from pad 40 was the last planned Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Florida (and it launched on the fleet leading booster!!), marking the end of an era for these launches on the East Coast. From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship. The West Coast team will continue regularly launching Starlink from Vandenberg.

Super proud of this incredible team. You’ve made Falcon 9 the most reliable launch vehicle in history. You also helped build the largest low-Earth orbit satellite constellation providing connectivity to millions around the world, and you’ve set the foundation for what’s next.

In the last seven years, Falcon has flown ~260 Starlink missions from the Cape… can’t wait until we launch that and many more with Starship!

[Doug Ducey @DougDucey]

Arizona’s ESA program serves more than 100,000 students, and that number will continue to grow.

No child should be trapped in a failing public school. In Arizona, We TRUST parents—not government unions—to make the best decisions for their children.

Thank you to the @GoldwaterInst for leading the charge alongside @ClarkRimsza @AZlovesESAs and @azfec to protect parents’ rights to choose the best education for their children.

[Scott Day Freeman @FREEMAN_AZ]

Arizona families keep their ESA accounts and kids keep options! The anti-school-choice brigade--with their income caps, claw-backs, and bureaucratic control--just got SCHOOLED AGAIN!

[Goldwater Institute @GoldwaterInst]

Read more here: https://t.co/3zbJvi87Fd

[Timothy Sandefur @TimothySandefur]

If you missed @GolwaterInst's annual Supreme Court roundup yesterday, you can watch it online here: https://t.co/XfK8KW4oLv

[Goldwater Institute @GoldwaterInst]

You might think you know what's behind America's affordability crisis, but what if you're wrong? Here's your chance to find out--and win a million dollars.

[Timothy Sandefur @TimothySandefur]

Fantastic article:

[Parker Jackson @ParkerDJackson]

Public comments at school board meetings are protected by the First Amendment, and by state constitutions. Written public comments must be open under public records laws. One Wyoming school district is violating those laws to censor criticism. @GoldwaterInst is on it.

[Timothy Sandefur @TimothySandefur]

"A deep and troubling problem in America's legal profession" doesn't begin to scratch the surface. You non-lawyers have barely any inkling of how far the legal profession has strayed from common sense and the foundations of our constitutional order. It would boggle your mind.

[Timothy Sandefur @TimothySandefur]

For those interested in why the Declaration of Independence is, indeed, law, there’s no substitute for reading my book. But if you want a preview, I discussed the topic at length here: https://t.co/OI9RTVpVrt

[Scott Day Freeman @FREEMAN_AZ]

Truth. The media thinks they are wielding a mighty rhetorical cudgel willfully ignorant that "peer review" is merely a preliminary, often superficial and ideologically influenced filter by a small number of anonymous reviewers. It is not a guaranty of truth, replicability, methodological soundness, or freedom from error, bias, or fraud. "Science(®!) has spoken, now sit down!" Invoking "peer review" conflates a process designed to raise the average quality of the publication with an authoritative certification of specific conclusions. The media is really just using it as a preening, self-congratulatory status marker, not an epistemic one.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Peer-review is not a part of the scientific method. Period.

The peer-review system, as it exists in its current form, has only existed since the 1970s (maybe 1960s in some cases). It is a relatively modern academic gatekeeping process, it’s not an ancient pillar of science.

Issac Newton, Galileo, Charles Darwin, and even much of Einstein's work (specifically his four Annus Mirabilis papers in 1905) were published without “peer-review.”

Science advances with new evidence, replication, and falsifiability. “Peer-reviewers” typically do none of the above things when reading over a paper that is submitted to an academic journal. Reviewers are anonymous “experts” who often just stamp approval for any papers they happen to agree with and reject ones that challenge their own biases or research because they want to be right.

Just because something has been “peer-reviewed” does not necessarily mean it is accurate.

And just because something hasn't been subject to the academic circle jerk does not necessarily mean it is invalid.

Your peers agreeing with your ideas does not automatically make your ideas valid.

“Peer-review” approval not the arbiter of truth. It can be. Sure. But it can also be gatekeeping.

[Timothy Sandefur @TimothySandefur]

If you missed my conversation with Jackie Cushman of the Adams Memorial Foundation about my new book on the Declaration of Independence, you can watch it here: https://t.co/fW9i5lWao6 @GoldwaterInst @CatoInstitute

[Scott Day Freeman @FREEMAN_AZ]

@Erdayastronaut What else would they hope to learn through this enormous expense?

[Timothy Sandefur @TimothySandefur]

ICYMI @GoldwaterInst won another case in the Arizona Supreme Court on Friday: https://t.co/dpiTteKHpv

[Goldwater Institute @GoldwaterInst]

Government officials can't keep taxpayers in the dark just because it's more convenient.

Today, the Arizona Supreme Court unanimously ruled for the Goldwater Institute, reaffirming that Arizona's public records laws carry a strong presumption of transparency—not secrecy.

It's a major win for open government.