Justin Levitt

Democracy, Counsel
Mr. Levitt works on election administration, redistricting, and a variety of other voting rights concerns. He has worked in various capacities for several presidential campaigns, including most recently as the National Voter Protection Counsel helping to run an unprecedented effort ensuring that tens of millions of citizens could vote and have those votes counted. He has also served as in-house counsel to America Coming Together, the country's largest independent voter registration and engagement operation, and worked at several nonprofit civil rights and civil liberties organizations. He is a frequent public speaker, with frequently-cited scholarship and public commentary on election issues. Mr. Levitt clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and holds an M.P.A. from the Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College. He is admitted to the bar in California, New Jersey, New York, and the District of Columbia, and to the U.S. District Courts in the C.D. California and N.D. Florida.
Commentary & Analysis
"Supreme Court Preview: The Most Important Elections Case Since Bush v. Gore" ACS Blog (01/09/08)"Selling Voter ID Law Is Like Selling Snake Oil" Morning Call (01/09/08)
"Voter Fraud Fixation Needs a Good Airing" (PDF) Atlanta Journal-Constitution (06/13/07)
"When Prosecuters Get Political" The Nation (06/06/07)
"The Myth of Voter Fraud" (with Michael Waldman) Washington Post (03/29/07)
Selected Media Appearances
- Television segment regarding Supreme Court's Voter ID case Democracy Now! (01/10/08)
- Insights interview American Democracy Institute (08/22/07)
- Press briefing on the DOJ and Voter Fraud (06/07/07)
- Radio appearance regarding DOJ and Voter Fraud (04/12/07)
- Radio appearance regarding the 2006 Election (11/11/06)
- Radio appearance regarding Voter Fraud and the Media (11/03/06)
Blog Posts
- “Voter Fraud Agenda,” Indeed (04/26/10)
- Modernizing Voter Registration, the Wisconsin Way (04/19/10)
- Karl Rove Is Right About Importance of Local Elections (03/24/10)
- Redistricting: Keeping California from reaching #1? (03/04/10)
- Count This As a Big Step Forward (02/12/10)
- Redistricting Reform, for the Right Reasons (11/12/09)
- A New Texas Two-Step: One Forward, Two Back (07/01/09)
- Drawing the Lines in Ohio: A Big Step Forward (06/24/09)
- Drawing the Lines in Ohio: The Structure of the Competition (06/22/09)
- Drawing the Lines in Ohio: The Devilish Details (06/21/09)
- Showing 10 most recent blog posts, show all
- Still Jumping to Conclusions (01/30/09)
- Veto Keeps Electoral Scales Level in KS (05/19/08)
- Crawford—More Rhetorical Bark than Legal Bite? (05/02/08)
- Crawford—Just the Facts II (04/30/08)
- Crawford—Just the Facts (04/30/08)
- Well It’s My Birthday Too (04/24/08)
- Double Bubble, LA’s Toil & Trouble (02/27/08)
- Garden State Voters Get Do-Over (02/01/08)
- Previewing Supreme Court’s Hearing of Crawford v. Marion (01/09/08)
