as you probably recognize by now, we have to socially distance and follow all sorts of other guidelines. thank you for your patience and thank you for following those. we have here today judge jeff sutton. it s an honor to have him. he flew in last night right through the storm. so we are grateful that his flight made it here safely and that we are able to have this talk today. judge sutton is a judge on the us court of appeals sixth circuit where he s served since 2003.he was nominated by george w. bush. he s a farmer attorney general of ohio. he s been in private practice . as clerked for several justices including justice scalia, the subject of his new book. the occasion for today s event is the essential scalia. this is the new book jeff sutton edited with bad will and another friend of ours who is been here about another scalia book so we re all about scalia in this chapter. judge sutton received his ba from williamscollege and law degree from ohio state university . he