UPDATE | Jan. 6, 2021 | President-elect Joe Biden reportedly has decided to nominate Merrick Garland to be Attorney General of the United States. Merrick Garland (68) served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit beginning in 1997. From February 2013 to…
Attorney Andrew A. Weissmann (62) became the chief of the criminal fraud section of the U.S. Department of Justice in 2015. Two years later he was appointed to a management role on the 2017 Special Counsel team headed by Robert Mueller. The Muller investigation into President Donald Trump ended in 2019, after which Weissmann went…
Dave Aronberg (49) is the Democratic State Attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida and a former member of the Florida Senate. He was elected to the state Senate in 2002 as its youngest member and served there for eight years. Previously, Aronberg worked as a lawyer in both the public and private sectors. In 2012,…
Benjamin “Ben” Ginsberg (67–68) is an author and eminent, longtime Republican lawyer. He served eight years as counsel to the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee. Recently, Ginsberg wrote an op-ed piece that appeared in The Washington Post; the article refuted President Donald Trump’s bogus claims about…
Attorney Elie Honig, 45, is a legal scholar and an analyst on the law for CNN, where he has his own show called Cross Exam with Elie Honig. Previously, he was the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey. Honig successfully prosecuted numerous mobsters and…
Pamela S. Karlan, 61, is a professor at Stanford Law School and an expert on voting rights and political process. From 2014 to 2015, Karlan was U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Voting Rights in the United States Department of Justice Civil Division. A vocal critic of President Donald J. Trump, she testified at his…
Jonathan Zittrain is a professor of Internet law and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, a professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-founder and director of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet…
Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals, recently became a centenarian — a wonderful milestone in an amazing life. Born in Hungary, his family emigrated to the U.S. to escape antisemitism. In Nuremberg, Ferencz was, among other things, the U.S. Army’s chief prosecutor of S.S. Einsatzgruppen officers who…
Charles “Chuck” Rosenberg, 59, who has worn many hats during his impressive career, is a former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. During his tenure, Rosenberg brought dog-fighting charges against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick. He was involved in the government’s death penalty case against September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. And he played…
Amy Berman Jackson, 65, is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was the presiding judge in the criminal case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Judge Jackson sentenced Manafort to nearly four years in prison — which, when added to another sentence he…
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