Don Grove is our Washington, D.C. correspondent. Don casts a jaundiced eye upon the activities of Congress, the White House, and the courts from his front row seat in the nation’s capital, where he is an attorney in federal practice and a managing partner in his law firm. Don entered the practice of law from a background in engineering and heavy industry, including the manufacture of trucks for municipal fleets and the design and prototype field testing of rough-terrain tractors in Australia, as well as researching and drafting patent applications and lobbying Parliament. He graduated summa cum laude with a BS in International Business from the University of Maryland and cum laude, from American University’s Washington College of Law, where he served on the editorial board of the Administrative Law Review and represented clients before the IRS as a student attorney. He clerked for the Reporter of Decisions at the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C. and worked on Capitol Hill for Senator Bill Frist and for Congressman Bob Clement. He served on the board of directors of U.S. China Educational Ventures and as a language instructor for that organization in China’s interior. He served as a law clerk for the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, where plaintiffs bring high-dollar lawsuits against the United States, such as the savings and loan and spent nuclear fuel cases. He is admitted to practice in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Tennessee and is admitted to the bar of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Don is a champion of limited government in the belly of the beast.