Ed Whelan

Ethics and Public Policy Center

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Attorney Ed Whalen is President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think-tank in Washington, DC. He clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and worked in the Office of Legal Counsel in the first George W. Bush Administration.

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