Jesus A. Osete

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, United States Department of Justice

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Administrative Law & Regulation • Campaign Finance • Civil Rights • Constitution • Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Criminal Law & Procedure • Due Process • Election Law • Federal Courts • Federalism • Federalist Society • First Amendment • Founding Era & History • Fourteenth Amendment • Fourth Amendment • Jurisprudence • Labor & Employment Law • Litigation • Philosophy • Politics • Property Law • Religious Liberty • Second Amendment • Security & Privacy • Separation of Powers • State Courts • State Governments • Supreme Court • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Free Speech & Election Law • Religious Liberties • Originally Speaking • The Practice Groups

Jesus A. Osete previously served as General Counsel to the Hon. John R. Ashcroft, Secretary of State of Missouri. Mr. Osete previously served as Deputy Solicitor General of Missouri and Deputy Attorney General for Special Litigation. He has presented oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, Mr. Osete worked at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP in the Appellate and Supreme Court Group. He also clerked for the Hon. Bobby E. Shepherd of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the Hon. Chief Justice Zel M. Fischer of the Supreme Court of Missouri. Mr. Osete received his J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, where he served as Senior Executive Editor of the Washington University Law Review. Before law school, Mr. Osete worked for the late Senator John McCain in the United States Senate, and received an A.B. in political science and pre-law from the University of Arizona.

Mr. Osete serves as Trustee for the Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Society and served as Vice-Chair of the Missouri Bar Appellate Practice Committee. In 2018, he was one of approximately forty individuals in the United States selected to attend the Originalism Summer Seminar at the Georgetown University Law Center. In 2019, he was one of twelve young lawyers in Missouri selected to participate in the MissouriBar’s Leadership Academy.

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