PodChute 19: Introducing "Fein Points": An Interview with Bruce Fein

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Published on May 2, 2024
This special episode of PodChute is the first in our exclusive "Fein Points" series, featuring nationally and internationally renowned constitutional lawyer, scholar and writer, Bruce Fein. It was live-streamed Wednesday, May 1, at 10 a.m. ET.

Fein was appointed as Research Director for the House Republicans on the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran from 1986-87 — and the General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission from 1983-1984.

In 1981-1982, Mr. Fein served as Associate Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice and supervised the Department's litigation and vetting of candidates for the federal judiciary. Attorney General William French Smith listed Mr. Fein as a candidate for appointment to the United States Supreme Court.

In 1987, Fein began the private practice of law and commenced more than two decades of weekly law and foreign policy columns for The Washington Times. He assisted then Congressman Bob Barr (R. Ga.) in drafting articles of impeachment against President William Jefferson Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice.

Fein then served on the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements and represented Edward Snowden’s father over the Orwellian surveillance of American citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA). He also drafted the complaint for Senator Rand Paul’s class action suit against President Obama, challenging the constitutionality of the NSA’s telephony metadata collection program under section 215 of the Patriot Act.

He has served as a Visitor Scholar for Constitutional Studies at the Heritage Foundation, an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and taught as an adjunct professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Between 1985 and 2009, Mr. Fein wrote weekly Commentary Columns for The Washington Times on legal and international issues.

He regularly appears on national television and radio, including MSNBC, FOX News, C-SPAN, BBC, Reuters, and NPR.

He has testified before Congress on more than 200 occasions. and conducts periodic constitutional tutorials for Members and Staff.

He is author of American Empire Before The Fall and Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy.

He has been published in all major media outlets.

Mr. Fein graduated from Harvard Law School with honors in 1972.

For Mr. Fein's list of 100 recommended readings, check out this article on Substack:

https://brucefein.substack.com/p/bruce-feins-100-book-reading-list