Mike Lee (born 1971) is a Republican US Senator from Utah (elected 2010) and a constitutional originalist lawyer. A graduate of BYU and BYU Law School, he clerked for Justice Samuel Alito. He is known for his strict constitutionalism, opposition to executive overreach, and libertarian-leaning conservatism within the Republican Party. He is also a Latter-day Saint.
Consistent constitutional originalist voice in the US Senate; critic of executive overreach across both parties; articulated a Constitution-first conservatism that pre-dates but overlaps with the Freedom Caucus movement.
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