Thanks so much for the kind introduction and the warm welcome. It is an honor to be here at Drake Law School with you all. I would like to thank the Federalist Society for hosting me. I
spoke at Ohio State Law School earlier this year and Fed Soc hosted me there too.
[1] The young people I met at the Ohio Law School Fed Soc reminded me of my former colleagues in the Vance Senate office as well as the amazing Gen Z administration appointees I got to know during the Trump-Vance transition last year. Yours is a generation forged by a financial crisis, a pandemic, and a new geopolitical world order. Older lawyers like me have much to learn from you, so long as we are willing to listen to you.
