1. Bruce Fein was born on March 12,1947 and is an American lawyer who specializes in constitutional and international law.
19 Facts About Bruce Fein
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Bruce Fein has worked for the American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation, both conservative think tanks, as an analyst and commentator.
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Bruce Fein is a principal in a government affairs and public relations firm, The Lichfield Group, in Washington, DC He is a resident scholar at the Turkish Coalition of America.
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When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, Bruce Fein was appointed assistant deputy attorney general, reporting directly to the department's No 2, Ed Schmaltz.
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Bruce Fein was a top Justice Department official under the Ronald Reagan administration.
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Bruce Fein has criticized the Bush, Clinton, and Obama presidencies.
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Under President Ronald Reagan, Bruce Fein served as an associate deputy attorney general from 1981 to 1982 and as general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission.
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Bruce Fein ridiculed Harriet Miers's Supreme court nomination, and was sharply critical of then-US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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On September 2,2008, Bruce Fein addressed Ron Paul's "Rally for the Republic" in Minneapolis, offering a critique of the Bush administration's interventionist policy and advocating a more non-interventionist foreign policy.
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Bruce Fein harshly criticized the anti-terror policies of the Bush White House, including wiretapping and detention of terror suspects.
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In 2011, Bruce Fein proposed impeaching President Barack Obama in connection with the 2011 military intervention in Libya.
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Bruce Fein argued that subsequent revelations that the Court was misled, changes in attitudes, and notably the Congress passing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 in which it apologized for the nation and made reparations for internment of Japanese Americans, history has in effect overturned the Korematsu decision.
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However, Edward Snowden subsequently made clear that Bruce Fein did not represent him, explaining that certain comments about his relationship with Glenn Greenwald were misattributed as his own, rather than properly attributed to either Bruce Fein or Snowden's father.
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Bruce Fein has penned several articles on the topic, including in The Washington Times and The Huffington Post where he states no racial, ethnic or religious motivation for the Armenian genocide ever existed.
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Bruce Fein's first Armenia-related action as a lawyer was to represent the Assembly of Turkish American Associations in their sentencing related intervention in the court case against Mourad Topalian, sentenced in 2001 for illegal storing of war weapons and explosives, linked to the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide.
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The House Ethics Committee recently found that Bruce Fein had misled Schmidt by failing to disclose to her that his fees in connection with the litigation against David Krikorian were being paid by the TCA.
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In late 2019, with Donald Trump impeachment hearings underway, Bruce Fein appeared on the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, presenting thirteen articles of impeachment.
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Constitutional Peril was the first book authored by Bruce Fein intended for the general public.
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Bruce Fein's argument was presented on national television programs including Bill Moyers Journal.