Attorney David French is a columnist for The Dispatch and Time magazine. Former senior writer for National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute. A former major in the Army and veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, French has also served as senior counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice.
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