In this virtual program, National Constitution Center President Jeffrey Rosen is joined by Montana Attorney General Tim Fox and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. They discussed the constitutional and policy challenges posed by coronavirus—including the difficulties managing prison outbreaks and criminal justice proceedings, challenges to their stay-at-home orders from various groups, how best to allow religious worship to continue safely, and more.
Attorney General Fox is also president of the National Association of Attorneys General, and this program was presented in partnership with NAAG and its Center for Excellence in Governance.
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Gurbir Grewal is the Attorney General of New Jersey. He was appointed by Governor Phil Murphy and confirmed by the New Jersey Senate on January 16, 2018. He is the first Sikh-American Attorney General in United States history. Previously, he was appointed in 2016 to be the county prosecutor of Bergen County, New Jersey and he was also the first Sikh American to be named a county prosecutor in the United States. In both positions, Grewal was prominently recognized for his efforts to combat opioid addiction. Prior to that, Grewal served as the chief of the Economic Crimes Unit at the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey and from 2004 to 2007, he was an AUSA in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York in the Business and Securities Fraud Unit.
Tim Fox is the Attorney General of Montana, and was elected November 2012. As Attorney General, Fox was among 24 state attorney generals who filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency in 2015 over the “Clean Water Plan.” He is currently running for Governor of Montana. He was previously an attorney in private practice with the Billings, Montana law firm of Moulton, Bellingham & Longo. In 1996, Fox joined the Montana Department of Environmental Quality as a Special Assistant Attorney General and was later promoted to a Division Administrator management.
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
This episode was engineered by Greg Scheckler with help from Jackie McDermott and produced by Jackie McDermott and Tanaya Tauber.
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