Duty in asia. I continued to fly fighter jets until i refired from the military with the rank of commander in 2001. After my time on active duty, i also became a pilot for a commercial air carrier. As a commercial airline pilot, i was performing my primary duty. And association that was importantly conceived in 1931 to represent airmail pilots. I had many appointed and elected positions in the association ultimately becoming the president of alba from 2011 to 2014. I represented more than 50,000 u. S. And canadian pilots at over 30 companies on contractual, safety, and government policy matters. I lead a team to address complex bankruptcy rein restructuring. Nothing was easy and they had to Work Together to settle negotiated agreements. I also served on numerous safety committees including the federal aviation fa advisory committee. Air traffic services, and appointed as the faa drone advisory committee. Last year i also cochaired the department of transportations Second Committee to r
2023 National Lawyers convention. Justice barrett, but justice gorsuch, kavanaugh and alito. The four justices were unable to issue any decisions,■h but they couldve made a third grant, so keep an i out for the orders list. On logistics, if you are getting , using the qr code to sign in, make sure you do that. Dont miss the rare documents exhibit. I mentioned it yesterday, on the second floor, and enter the drawing. The item i held up yesterday is the door prize. It is a very handsomely framed page from a First Edition federalist papers. Soing to have any need to go to the South Carolina room to see the documents and enter for that. Just to reassure you, they did of the federalist papers, this is an addition that was beat up, it lot of ways. They salvaged some pages. Theres only four of them. You can see the documents and enter them to win. We have anotr great day planned today. Beginning with our Panel Discussion on precedent and originalism. Before we get to that i want to ys event
Good morning, everyone. I am dean, Senior Vice President and general counsel of the Federalist Society, for those of you dont know me. You i think you all for being here. You are the stalwarts that show up in 00 a. M. In the morning after the annual dinner. Thank you for being here. I thought we had a great day yesterday capped by a great night last night. Im so happy it seems that very few of you went to Union Station last night. I count that as an additional success. I have been asked about last nights events, so i will tell you all at once, the official count, we had four justices of the Supreme Court in attendance last night. Justice barrett, but also justice gorsuch, kavanaugh and alito. The four justices were unable to issue any decisions, but they couldve made a third grant, so keep an out for the orders list. On logistics, if you are gting , using the qr code to sign in, make sure you do that. Dont miss the rare documents exhibit. Qr de to sign in, make sure you do that. Dont m
Anniversary of the date when the delegates in philadelphia concluded the work of the constitutional convention. They sent the constitution to the people beginning one of the greatest 10 month debates in american history. With the ratification of the constitution. Rook has provided copies of their final product to tens of thousands of teachers and students all across the country, and you all have a copy of this at your seat today. To celebrate Constitution Day, we are honored to have chad readler, appointed as acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Division at the United States department of justice on january 30, 2017. In this role, he oversees the largest Litigation Team at the department of justice with over 1100 lawyers who manage over 50,000 different matters each year. The Civil Division represents the United States in a wide array of civil litigation, including challenges to president ial executive orders, congressional statutes, federal agency actions, commercial contra
Administration in halted prosecution of some undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children. We will also hear testimony from immigration policy analyst and a medical student protected by tonight. Senator Chuck Grassley chairs this threehour Judiciary Committee hearing. [background noises] welcome everybody. Particularly, to our witnesses on both panels because i know you put a lot of work into preparation we thank everyone for their help. Before i give my Opening Statement for the topic of our hearing i think we all take a moment yesterday and today and for a long time in the future but i do it now on behalf of the committee do offer our collective thoughts and prayers to the victims of the Las Vegas Shooting and their families and their loved ones. As everyone is aware yesterday more than 59 americans lost their lives in more than 500 were injured. The carnage occurred that occurred yesterday is a truly heartbreaking. We are here today to consider how to address the i