On The Front Lines
Rutherford Institute Spotlights Attorney Bruce Fein, Architect Behind Rand Paul’s NSA Lawsuit, at Its Barnes & Noble Speaker Series on Feb. 20, 6 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — In partnership with Barnes & Noble, The Rutherford Institute will welcome constitutional attorney Bruce Fein to the podium for the second installment of its speaker series. Fein, architect of the class-action lawsuit recently filed by Senator Rand Paul against the National Security Agency in regards to their mass surveillance of American communications and a member of The Rutherford Institute’s Board of Directors, will speak at the Barnes & Noble in Charlottesville, Va., on Thursday, February 20, 2014, at 6 pm EST. Fein will be introduced by constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State. A book signing will follow the event, which is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, however.
Bruce Fein has had a long career in Washington, serving as a former Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States, an adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, a resident scholar at the Heritage Foundation, a lecturer at the Brookings Institute and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. Fein has also consistently opposed the growth of the federal government post-9/11, speaking out against legislation such as the Patriot Act. Fein attended Swarthmore and the University of California, Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with honors. He also graduated from Harvard Law School with honors. Fein has also served as executive editor of World Intelligence Review, a periodical devoted to national security and intelligence issues. He has spoken before countless student audiences, read thousands of books, classical and otherwise, and volunteered endless hours teaching children of all ages. Bruce has authored several volumes on the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Constitution and international law. He has assisted two dozen countries in constitutional revision and advised over twenty heads of state and presidents of foreign nations, plus four American presidents and members of Congress, the House of Commons and the House of Lords on matters ranging from education, law, telecommunications and cable regulation to sugar quotas, oil and gas pipelines and human rights.
The Rutherford Institute’s speaker series, offered in partnership with Barnes & Noble, features a broad array of political and cultural gadflies from a cross-section of cultural, philosophical and legal backgrounds who will address issues ranging from civil liberties post-9/11 and criminal justice reform to the dissolution of the print media, religious freedom in America, TSA scanners and threats to the Fourth Amendment, and what Americans can do to guard against attacks on the Constitution.
