Jason Walta is Senior Counsel at the National Education Association. At NEA, he brings and defends constitutional litigation on behalf of the union and its members, authors amicus briefs in the Supreme Court and U.S. Courts of Appeals, and advises the union on campaign-finance issues. Before coming to NEA, he was a senior attorney in the Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Branch of the National Labor Relations Board, an associate at the union-side labor law firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser, and a law clerk to Hon. Patti Saris (U.S. District of Massachusetts) and Hon. Juan Torruella (U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit). He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.