The South Asian Bar Association of North America (SABA North America), will be hosting its 14th Annual Convention on July 13-15 in Washington, D.C.The program includes the first “Lobby Day” on Capitol Hill including a welcome reception to the members of Congress, as well as two days of continuing legal education seminars, ending with a gala dinner.
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The organization has 6,000 members, represented in 26 chapters around the country.Alongside the convention, SABA North America Foundation will also be hosting its annual fundraiser on July 14, which will have as keynote speaker, Khizr Khan, a Harvard Law School graduate, whose son Humanyun Khan was killed in the Iraq War and who has became famous for his speech at the Democratic Convention calling out the then President-elect Donald Trump on whether he had read the American Constitution.
According to SABA, the “recent elections and the rise of the populist movement have shifted the legislative and policy landscape in the U.S. and overseas” and many of these changes impact the South Asian community. Among the invitees are Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the first Indian-American woman in the House of Representatives; former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, recipient of the 2017 SABA Cornerstone Award; Judge Sri Srinivasan of the 9th Circuit; Judge Amol Thapar, recently appointed to the Sixth Circuit.
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Interviews with Raj De, former General Counsel at the United States National Security Agency under President Barack Obama and now partner in Mayer Brown’s law firm in Washington DC; and former Principal Deputy Solicitor General at the Justice Department, Neal Katyal, who is currently leading the charge against President Trump’s temporary ban on immigrants from 6 Muslim-majority nations andother leaders from the South Asian legal community will also be featured.
By Premji
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