Deroy Murdock: The Case for Color Neutrality

After decades' of work to prohibit racial discrimination through Title VI and Title VII in federal law, and the Fair Employment and Housing Act, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, and Proposition 209 here in California, recent programs have pushed back. At the U.S. government’s Sandia Laboratory in New Mexico, for example, employees were forced into re-education sessions on the basis of their race and sex. Does it matter that this discrimination disfavors white men? 

Fox News Contributor Deroy Murdock will make "The Case for Color Neutrality." 

When: Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 11:45 a.m. (registration), 12:00 Noon (lunch)

Where: First Floor Conference Room, 2040 Main Street, 1st Floor, Irvine, CA.
(Please validate your parking ticket in the lobby before or after entering the venue.)

Cost: $30/members, $35/non-members, $20/students, for lunch and 1 hour of MCLE credit (the Federalist Society is a California State Bar approved provider of MCLE).

RSVP and Pay: To RSVP and pay by credit card, please visit the Federalist Society event page here.

To pay by cash or check at the door, please send an RSVP to Tim Kowal at OCFedSocPresident@gmail.com and make checks payable to “The Federalist Society.”

*** Please email us if you have any dietary concerns. ***

New York political commentor Deroy Murdock is a Fox News Contributor, a Contributing Editor with National Review Online, an emeritus Media Fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University; and a Senior Fellow with the Atlas Network, which supports and connects some 500 free-market think tanks in the USA and some 95 countries world-wide. Mr. Murdock’s weekly column — “This Opinion Just In…” — appears in the New York Post, the Washington Times, the New Hampshire Union-Leader, and other newspapers across America. He has appeared on radio shows across America and presents commentaries on Fox News Radio’s podcast, The Rundown. He is a veteran of the 1980 and 1984 Reagan for President campaigns and Steve Forbes’ 2000 White House bid. 

As a popular public speaker, he has lectured or debated at the Cato Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations; Harvard Medical School, the Heritage Foundation; the National Academy of Sciences; Dartmouth, Stanford, and Tulane universities; and various fora, from Bogotá to Buenos Aires to Budapest. He is a native of Los Angeles, a graduate of Georgetown University, and a resident of Manhattan, where he earned an MBA from New York University. His program included a semester of study at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Deroy Murdock hopes that someday the free society will bring him — and every American — more leisure time to experience fine dining, motion pictures, skiing, live music, and the priceless joys of family, friends, and loved ones. 

August 8, 2024 Supreme Court Roundup with Blaine Evanson

The Orange County Federalist Society Lawyers Chapter is pleased to host Blaine Evanson to provide a summary of the most significant United States Supreme Court cases from the 2023-2024 term. Blaine will provide an overview of some of the key decisions. 

 

When: Thursday August 8 at 11:30 a.m. (registration), 12:00 p.m. (lunch)

NOTE NEW LAGUNA NIGUEL VENUE: Bottega Angelina, 32441 Golden Lantern, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677

Cost: $35/members, $45/non-members, $25/students, for lunch and 1 hour of MCLE credit (the Federalist Society is a California State Bar approved provider of MCLE).

RSVP and Pay: To RSVP and pay by credit card, please visit the Federalist Society event page here.

To pay by cash or check at the door, please send an RSVP to Tim Kowal at OCFedSocPresident@gmail.com and make checks payable to “The Federalist Society.”

*** Please email us if you have have any dietary concerns. ***

Blaine H. Evanson is a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Orange County, California, practicing primarily in the appellate and constitutional law practice group. He has represented clients in several matters before the Supreme Court of the United States and in federal and state appellate courts around the country. He has experience across a broad array of industries and subject matter areas, at all stages of litigation. He has received many accolades for his appellate practice, including from Law360, Euromoney, Benchmark Litigation, The Best Lawyers in America, and California “Super Lawyers.” Mr. Evanson is also a member of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Before coming to BYU, he taught courses in constitutional law at the University of Southern California and University of California, Irvine law schools.

Mr. Evanson graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar and a Senior Editor on the Columbia Law Review. After graduation, he served as a law clerk for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

At BYU Law School, Mr. Evanson teaches Constitutional Law in Commercial Litigation, a course which analyzes current issues in constitutional law that are actively litigated by companies in commercial litigation.

John Fund: Joe Biden Now Has A New Election Partner: The Federal Government

If You Disliked Vote Harvesting, Wait Till You Read Biden's Executive Orders 

You probably remember the "Zuckerbucks" strategy in the 2020 election, which pumped nearly half a billion dollars to almost 2500 election offices for get-out-the-vote operations. While 28 states so far, including Wisconsin, have banned this practice, President Biden has issued a series of executive orders to leverage over 600 federal agencies—including the Social Security Administration's 1,200 offices and all national parks—in similar get-out-the-vote operations. 

Election-law expert John Fund will discuss the executive orders, how they are likely to effect the election, how there is, unfortunately, nothing legally to be done about it before the election, and how to factor all this in evaluations of the integrity of our elections. 

When: Tuesday, July 16 at 11:30 a.m. (registration), 12:00 p.m. (lunch)

Where: First Floor Conference Room, 2040 Main Street, 1st Floor, Irvine, CA.
(Please get your parking ticket validated in the lobby before or after entering the venue.)

Cost: $30/members, $35/non-members, $20/students, for lunch and 1 hour of MCLE credit (the Federalist Society is a California State Bar approved provider of MCLE).

RSVP and Pay: To RSVP and pay by credit card, please visit the Federalist Society event page here.

To pay by cash or check at the door, please send an RSVP to Tim Kowal at OCFedSocPresident@gmail.com and make checks payable to “The Federalist Society.”

*** Please email us if you have have any dietary concerns. ***

John Fund is National Affairs Columnist for National Review magazine and a on-air analyst on the Fox News Channel. He is considered a notable expert on American politics and the nexus between politics and economics.

He previously served as a columnist and editorial board member for The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several books, including Who's Counting: Bow Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote At Risk (Encounter Books, 2012); Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy (Encounter Books, 2008) and The Dangers of Regulation Through Litigation (ATRA Press, 2008). He worked as a research analyst for the California Legislature in Sacramento before beginning his journalism career as a reporter for the syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak.

Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, called him "the Tom Paine of the modern Congressional reform movement." He has won awards from the Institute for Justice, The School Choice Aliance and the Warren Brooks award for journalistic excellence from the American Legislative Exchange Council.