Farm Bureau and the Courts: Opportunities and Successes

We’ll review the most recent Supreme Court term and AFBF’s legal advocacy in the courts, including opportunities to build upon our successes. Topics will include why the Supreme Court rules the way it does, Congressional gridlock, agency deference (and the growth of the bureaucratic state), Prop 12, WOTUS, the Climate Disclosure Rules, and much much more!

Speakers:

Travis Cushman

Deputy General Counsel, Litigations & Public Policy | AFBF

Travis Cushman is the Deputy General Counsel, Litigation & Public Policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation. In that role, Travis manages AFBF’s nationwide litigation on all issues facing agriculture, including international trade, property rights, access to public lands and crop protection products, and the regulatory regimes of the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act. Travis also advises

AFBF’s public policy staff in the analysis of legislation and regulations, development of recommendations and strategies, drafting rulemaking comments and other policy advocacy communications, and compliance with the federal Lobbying Disclosure Act and other political and lobbying law requirements. Prior to joining AFBF in 2018, Travis spent 10 years in private law practice.

Travis earned his law degree from the Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia and the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and several federal district courts.

Originally from Virginia, Travis has lived in North Carolina, Colorado, New York, Ireland, Oklahoma, and Washington, DC. He now lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Brittani Cushman, son, Dax, and daughter, Emelia.