The King George III Prize
The Award No One Wants: Calling Out the Worst Civil Liberties AbusersThis campaign exposes the most outrageous assaults on civil liberties and the people and institutions behind them.
Not anymore. With your votes, The King George III Prize will spotlight these dark constitutional misdeeds.
Round 1 Matchups
How It Works
No Bracket Experience? No Problem!
You don’t need to be a sports fan to get in on the action! The bracket rolls out head-to-head matchups between the worst offenders of civil liberties.
Your job? Simple: Vote for the bigger violator of the pair in each round. So, you can cast 16 votes in the Opening Round, one for each match-up. Then, you can cast 8 votes in the Sour 16, again one for each match-up—and so on.
For example—Su vs. Granholm. If you vote for Su and she wins, she moves on. Round by round, we narrow the field of bureaucrats until only the Terrible Two remain.
The final showdown will determine the “champion” with the winner (or rather, the loser) crowned at the Fifth Annual King George III Prize event in June 2025.
Key Voting Dates in the NCLA Tournament:
Opening Round Voting: Now through March 27
Sour 16: March 28 – April 3
Egregious 8: April 4 – April 7
Flagrant Four: April 8 – April 17
Terrible Two: April 18 – May 1
Championship unveiled in early June
Mark your calendar and make your vote count!
Who’s Eligible for the King George III Prize?
To earn this not-so-prestigious award, a nominee must be a policy-level decision maker in a federal, state, or local government agency. That means:
✅ Bureaucrats & agency heads? Fair game.
❌ Judges & frontline officers? Not this time. (While they can trample rights, this award targets deliberate policy decisions, not individual misconduct.)
✅ Policies that violate constitutional rights? Eligible.
❌ Policies we just don’t like? Not the point.
Who’s out? Past winners like Anthony Fauci & Merrick Garland are retired from contention. U.S. Senators & Representatives are excluded because their misdeeds go through Congress. And POTUS? The voters had their crack at him, too.
So let’s have some fun and call out the worst of the rest!