John Ehrett

Chief Counsel, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley

John Ehrett is chief counsel to U.S. Senator Josh Hawley and lead Republican counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. He advises the Senator on Judiciary Committee issues including constitutional law, judicial nominations, federal criminal law, technology policy, immigration law, Second Amendment law, antitrust policy, and intellectual property law, and previously worked on the confirmations of Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Amy Coney Barrett.

Before the Hill, he was an associate at Gibson Dunn and clerked for Judge James Ho on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a graduate of Patrick Henry College and Yale Law School.

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