In June 2017, Hawley announced that Missouri had filed suit in state court against three major drug companies, Endo Health Solutions, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and Purdue Pharma, for allegedly hiding the danger of prescription painkillers and contributing to the opioid epidemic.
Senator Hawley has taken on corporate special interests to level playing field for the American worker as well. He boldly stood up to the abuses of Big Tech and Wall Street and has worked to reign in the power of these mega companies while championing innovation, entrepreneurship, and small businesses.
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After spending ten months in London as a post graduate intern at St Paul's School from 2002 to 2003, Hawley returned to the U. S. to attend Yale Law School, graduating in 2006 with a Juris Doctor degree. The Kansas City Star reported that Hawley's classmates saw him as "politically ambitious and a deeply religious conservative."
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Joshua David Hawley (born December 31, 1979) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the junior United States senator from Missouri since 2019.
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Raised in rural Missouri, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley previously served as Missouri’s Attorney General. There he earned a reputation for taking on the big and the powerful to protect Missouri workers and families. He has battled big government and big business, special interests, organized crime, and anyone who would threaten the well-being ...
Senator Hawley serves on the Senate Committees on the Judiciary, Armed Services, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Senator Hawley has also worked to keep our communities safe by confronting illegal immigration, and challenging big opioid manufacturers and human traffickers – during his time as the former Attorney General of Missouri and in the U.S. Senate.
A native of small town Lexington, Missouri in rural Lafayette County, Senator Hawley graduated from Rockhurst High School in Kansas City. After graduating from Stanford University in 2002 ...
They are the proud parents of three young children: Elijah, Blaise, and Abigail. Senator Hawley is recognized as one of the nation’s leading constitutional lawyers. He has litigated at the Supreme Court of the United States, the federal courts of appeals, and in state court, fighting for the people’s liberties.
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Below is an abbreviated outline of Hawley's academic, professional, and political career:
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Josh Hawley defeated incumbent Claire McCaskill, Craig O'Dear, Japheth Campbell, and Jo Crain in the general election for U.S. Senate Missouri on November 6, 2018.
Congress convened a joint session on January 6-7, 2021, to count electoral votes by state and confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election. Hawley voted against certifying the electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania. The Senate rejected both objections by a vote of 6-93 for Arizona and 7-92 for Pennsylvania.
Josh Hawley is known as an American attorney and politician. He is most famous for being a Senator, representing the state of Missouri.
Congressperson and as Missouri's Attorney General. Before he became Attorney General, Josh battled Obamacare at the Supreme Court and won as one of the lead lawyers in the milestone Hobby Lobby case.
He's sufficiently young to have utilized Hotmail as a youngster and Friendster as a youthful grown-up. However, his perspectives on the tech business are those of a curmudgeon.
(Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images) As you probably could guess, based on his radically right-wing record and degree from Yale Law School, Senator Josh Hawley was a member of the Federalist Society in law school. And as you also probably guessed based on those two facts, ...
As Manta’s version of the story goes, she did way more work in their joint position, so when both Manta and Hawley threw their hats into the ring for President of FedSoc for the following year, she thought she had it in the bag. But that’s where the chicanery begins, according to Manta.