Federalist Society Convention

The Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention begins tomorrow. The panel discussions will be live streamed. The agenda is here. YouTube links are here.

The Criminal Law Practice Group’s panel is “Evaluating the Progressive Prosecutor Experiment.” It is tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at 3:30-5:00 EST / 12:30-2:00 PST. California voters provided some grist for that mill last Tuesday, as noted in this post.

The speakers are Zack Smith from the Heritage Foundation, DA Ray Tierney from Suffolk County, NY (eastern Long Island), DA John Creuzot from Dallas, TX, and Prof. Carissa Hessick from UNC Law. Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom moderates.

I expect the most interesting part of the convention will be people in the hallways and at the receptions jockeying for positions in the incoming administration, as was the case in 2016. These conversations will not be live streamed, unfortunately.

Tomorrow at 1:45 ET / 10:45 PT is “Federal Judicial Selections in the Next Administration.” That should also be interesting.